Contamination mitigation

US10494597B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC · US

Inventors

• Adam Bernfeld · Newark, US
• Keith H. Burlew · Middletown, US
• Anthony R. Calabria · Wilmington, US
• Duncan Coffey · Hockessin, US
• Benjamin Fuchs · Long Beach, US
• Ana Paula Goes · Barueri, BR
• Adam David Henry · Kennett Square, US
• Walter Tamulis · San Diego, US
• Joseph J. Zaher · Newark, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 10, 2015
• Grant date: Dec 3, 2019
• Expiry date: Dec 22, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C11D2111/20
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present disclosure is directed to methods, approaches, devices, equipment, and systems for minimizing or reducing contamination in facilities implementing fermentation or distillation processes. In embodiments, the facility is a biofuel plant that produces fermentation product such as product alcohol like butanol. In some embodiments, the methods, approaches, devices, equipment, and systems are operable to implement clean in place contamination (CIP) mitigation techniques that can also include sterilize in place (SIP) mitigation techniques to decontaminate equipment including surfaces of the equipment that come in contact with materials used in the production of product alcohols. Other cleaning and contamination minimizing techniques are also described.