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US 7,695,566 B2Granted
Extraction of constituents from sugar beet chips
AssigneeSudzucker Aktiengesellschaft Mannheim/Ochsenfurt
InventorsJochen Arnold, Stefan Frenzel, Thomas Michelberger, Timo Scheuer
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and an installation for improving isolation and extraction of constituents from sugar beets (Beta vulgaris).
Claims20
A method for extracting constituents from sugar beets, the method comprising:
- (a) comminution of the sugar beets into beet chips in a device for comminuting beets into beet chips while obtaining a chip-juice mixture;
- (b) addition of raw juice or water to the chip-juice mixture obtained in order to obtain a prepared chip-juice mixture with a conductivity of 2.6 mS/cm to 10.0 mS/cm;
- (c) adjustment of a sugar beet bulk density of 400 kg/m3 to 800 kg/m3 in the prepared chip-juice mixture in an electroporation device;
- (d) electroporation of the prepared chip-juice mixture obtained in step (c);
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- (e) extraction in an extractor of the electroporated chip-juice mixture obtained.
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An installation for extracting and isolating constituents from beet chips the installation comprising:
- at least one comminuting device for comminuting beets into beet chips while obtaining a chip-juice mixture;
- at least one electroporating device for the electroporation of the chip-juice mixture;
- at least a first transfer device disposed between the at least one comminuting device and the at least one electroporation device for transferring the chip-juice mixture from the at least one comminuting device to the at least one electroporation device;
- at least one extracting device to extract the electroporated chip-juice mixture;
- at least a second transfer device disposed between the at least one electroporation device and the at least one extraction device for transferring the electroporated chip-juice mixture from the at least one electroporation device to the at least one extraction device;
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- a feeding device in communication with the electroporation device or upstream of the electroporating for feeding in raw juice from the extracting device either into the electroporating device or upstream of the electroporating device.
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A method of extracting constituents from sugar beets, the method comprising:
- (a) comminution of the sugar beets into beet chips to obtain a chip-juice mixture;
- (b) addition of raw juice or water to the chip-juice mixture to obtain a prepared chip-juice mixture;
- (c) electroporation of the prepared chip-juice mixture with an electroporation device;
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- (d) extraction of the electroporated chip-juice mixture with an extraction device
- wherein step (b) includes adding raw juice or water from the extraction device to the chip-juice mixture in the electroporation device or upstream thereof.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.