Recovering roughage from draff and product produced according to the method
AssigneeBinding-Brauerei AG
InventorsChristian Zurcher, Rudiger Gruss
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Abstract
An energy-efficient method of recovering roughage from brewery residues (draff), including adding water to the draff and mixing to form a mixture of a soft protein fraction and a hard roughage fraction, separating the soft protein fraction from the hard roughage fraction, and removing water from the separated roughage fraction. After separating water the roughage fraction may be dried, and comminuted. In contrast to other methods, the separation into roughage and protein fractions is performed before the drying step and only the roughage fraction of interest is dried.
Claims11
A method of recovering roughage from draff, comprising:
- (a) adding water to draff in a weight ratio of about 1:1, said draff comprising a soft protein fraction and a hard roughage fraction which are partially separated from each other;
- (b) mixing said draff and water to enhance the separation of said soft protein fraction from said hard roughage fraction;
- (c) mechanically separating said soft protein fraction from said hard roughage fraction by using at least one of a screen press or a decanter;
- (d) removing water from said separated roughage fraction, and
- (e) drying said separated roughage fraction.
A method of recovering roughage from draff, comprising:
- (a) adding water to draff in a weight ratio of about 1:1;
- (b) mixing said draff and water to form a mixture of a soft protein fraction and a hard roughage fraction;
- (c) separating said soft protein fraction from said hard roughage fraction;
- (d) mixing said separated roughage fraction with a hot liquid selected from the group consisting of hot water and hot diluted acid to remove protein, fat, and heavy metals from said separated roughage fraction;
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- (e) removing water from said separated roughage fraction.
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