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Title: The production of fuels and chemicals from food processing wastes using a novel fermenter separator. Annual progress report, January 1991--December 1991

Abstract

During 1991, considerable progress was made on the waste utilization project. Two small Wisconsin companies have expressed an interest in promoting and developing the ICRS technology. Pilot plant sites at (1) Hopkinton, IA, for a sweet whey plant, and Beaver Dam WI, for an acid whey site have been under development siting ICRS operations. The Hopkinton, IA site is owned and operated by Permeate Refining Inc., who have built a batch ethanol plant across the street from Swiss Valley Farms cheddar cheese operations. Permeate from Swiss Valley is piped across to PRI. PRI has signed a contract to site a 300--500,000 gallon/yr to ICRS pilot plant. They feel that the lower labor, lower energy, continuous process offered by the ICRS will substantially improve their profitability. Catalytics, Inc, is involved with converting whey from a Kraft cream cheese operation to ethanol and yeast. A complete project including whey concentration, sterilization, and yeast growth has been designed for this site. Process design improvements with the ICRS focussed on ethanol recovery techniques during this year`s project. A solvent absorption/extractive distillation (SAED) process has been developed which offers the capability of obtaining an anhydrous ethanol product from vapors off 3 to 9% ethanol solutionsmore » using very little energy for distillation. Work on products from waste streams was also performed. a. Diacetyl as a high value flavor compound was very successfully produced in a Stirred Tank Reactor w/Separation. b. Yeast production from secondary carbohydrates in the whey, lactic acid, and glycerol was studied. c. Lactic acid production from cellulose and lactose studies continued. d. Production of anti-fungal reagents by immobilized plant cells; Gossypol has antifungal properties and is produced by G. arboretum.« less

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Purdue Univ., Lafayette, IN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
10156274
Report Number(s):
DOE/CE/40772-T1
ON: DE92016653
DOE Contract Number:  
FG02-85CE40772
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Dec 1991
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; WHEY; WASTE PRODUCT UTILIZATION; ETHANOL; PRODUCTION; LACTIC ACID; PROGRESS REPORT; FERMENTATION; DISTILLATION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; EFFICIENCY; CHEMICAL REACTORS; 320305; 400201; INDUSTRIAL WASTE MANAGEMENT; CHEMICAL AND PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES

Citation Formats

Dale, M C, Venkatesh, K V, Choi, Hojoon, Moelhman, M, Saliceti, L, Okos, M R, and Wankat, P C. The production of fuels and chemicals from food processing wastes using a novel fermenter separator. Annual progress report, January 1991--December 1991. United States: N. p., 1991. Web. doi:10.2172/10156274.
Dale, M C, Venkatesh, K V, Choi, Hojoon, Moelhman, M, Saliceti, L, Okos, M R, & Wankat, P C. The production of fuels and chemicals from food processing wastes using a novel fermenter separator. Annual progress report, January 1991--December 1991. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10156274
Dale, M C, Venkatesh, K V, Choi, Hojoon, Moelhman, M, Saliceti, L, Okos, M R, and Wankat, P C. 1991. "The production of fuels and chemicals from food processing wastes using a novel fermenter separator. Annual progress report, January 1991--December 1991". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10156274. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10156274.
@article{osti_10156274,
title = {The production of fuels and chemicals from food processing wastes using a novel fermenter separator. Annual progress report, January 1991--December 1991},
author = {Dale, M C and Venkatesh, K V and Choi, Hojoon and Moelhman, M and Saliceti, L and Okos, M R and Wankat, P C},
abstractNote = {During 1991, considerable progress was made on the waste utilization project. Two small Wisconsin companies have expressed an interest in promoting and developing the ICRS technology. Pilot plant sites at (1) Hopkinton, IA, for a sweet whey plant, and Beaver Dam WI, for an acid whey site have been under development siting ICRS operations. The Hopkinton, IA site is owned and operated by Permeate Refining Inc., who have built a batch ethanol plant across the street from Swiss Valley Farms cheddar cheese operations. Permeate from Swiss Valley is piped across to PRI. PRI has signed a contract to site a 300--500,000 gallon/yr to ICRS pilot plant. They feel that the lower labor, lower energy, continuous process offered by the ICRS will substantially improve their profitability. Catalytics, Inc, is involved with converting whey from a Kraft cream cheese operation to ethanol and yeast. A complete project including whey concentration, sterilization, and yeast growth has been designed for this site. Process design improvements with the ICRS focussed on ethanol recovery techniques during this year`s project. A solvent absorption/extractive distillation (SAED) process has been developed which offers the capability of obtaining an anhydrous ethanol product from vapors off 3 to 9% ethanol solutions using very little energy for distillation. Work on products from waste streams was also performed. a. Diacetyl as a high value flavor compound was very successfully produced in a Stirred Tank Reactor w/Separation. b. Yeast production from secondary carbohydrates in the whey, lactic acid, and glycerol was studied. c. Lactic acid production from cellulose and lactose studies continued. d. Production of anti-fungal reagents by immobilized plant cells; Gossypol has antifungal properties and is produced by G. arboretum.},
doi = {10.2172/10156274},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/10156274}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1991},
month = {Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1991}
}