Chemical-mechanical treatment of lignocellulosics to improve nutritive value

US4965086A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Degussa AG · DE

Inventors

• Oswald Helmling · Hasselroth, DE
• G. Arnold · Ringwood, US
• H. Rzehak · Lynbrook, US
• George C. Fahey, Jr. · Urbana, US
• Larry Berger · Chadds Ford, US
• Neal R. Merchen · Champaign, US
• John Medina · Nutley, US
• Rudi E. Moerck · Sanford, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 4, 1988
• Grant date: Oct 23, 1990
• Expiry date: Jan 4, 2008

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S426/807
• WIPO field: Food chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A method is disclosed for treating a lignocellulosic substrate in order to imrpove its nutritive value wherein a plant substrate is treated with a sufficient amount of an alkaline material and hydrogen peroxide, or a compound capable of generating hydrogen peroxide, for a sufficient period of time and the reaction mass is extruded to produce a product having increased nutrient availability.