Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus and method for bioenergy production using regenerated acid solution
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Application No.: US15329399Application Date: 2015-09-21
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Publication No.: US10125344B2Publication Date: 2018-11-13
- Inventor: Young Soon Um , Hong Gon Kim , Byoung Sung Ahn , Sang Deuk Lee , Chang Soo Kim , Dong Jin Suh , Kyung Min Lee
- Applicant: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Applicant Address: KR Seoul
- Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Current Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- Current Assignee Address: KR Seoul
- Agency: Goldilocks Zone IP Law
- Priority: KR10-2014-0132605 20141001
- International Application: PCT/KR2015/009880 WO 20150921
- International Announcement: WO2016/052896 WO 20160407
- Main IPC: C12M1/00
- IPC: C12M1/00 ; C12M1/02 ; C12M1/34

Abstract:
The apparatus includes: a pretreatment tank where biomass and a first acid solution are stirred to extract sugar components from the biomass; a hydrolysis tank where water is added to the pretreated mixture transferred from the pretreatment tank such that the concentration of the acid is reduced and the sugar components are hydrolyzed to produce an acid hydrolyzate; a first sugar-acid separation tank where the acid hydrolyzate is separated into a second acid solution and a first hydrolyzate; a second sugar-acid separation tank where the first hydrolyzate is separated into a third acid solution and a second hydrolyzate; a fermentation tank where the second hydrolyzate is fermented to produce bioenergy; and an acid solution concentration tank where a mixture of the second acid solution transferred from the first sugar-acid separation tank and the third acid solution transferred from the second sugar-acid separation tank is concentrated to a higher level for reuse.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170218322A1 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR BIOENERGY PRODUCTION USING REGENERATED ACID SOLUTION Public/Granted day:2017-08-03
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