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US 8,273,546 B2Granted
Processes of producing fermentation products
AssigneeNovozymes North America, Inc.
InventorsChee-Leong Soong, Jiyin Liu, Guillermo Coward-Kelly
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Abstract
The invention relates to a process of fermenting plant material in a fermentation medium into a fermentation product using a fermenting organism, wherein one or more carbonic anhydrases are present in the fermentation medium.
Claims10
A process of producing a fermentation product from starch-containing material comprising the steps of:
- i) liquefying starch-containing material with an alpha-amylase;
- ii) saccharifying the liquefied material with a carbohydrate source generating enzyme,
- iii) fermenting with one or more fermenting organisms by adding a carbonic anhydrase before or during fermentation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.