Contamination mitigation

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United States of America

PATENT NO 10494597
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15129059

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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.

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  • BUTAMAX ADVANCED BIOFUELS LLC

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bernfeld, Adam Newark, US 4 72
Burlew, Keith H Middletown, US 20 384
Calabria, Anthony R Wilmington, US 14 171
Coffey, Duncan Hockessin, US 6 62
Fuchs, Benjamin Wilmington, US 13 175
Goes, Ana Paula Barueri, BR 1 3
Henry, Adam David Kennett Square, US 2 24
Tamulis, Walter San Diego, US 1 3
Zaher, Joseph J Newark, US 42 483

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