Monday, January 11, 2010
BioReactor
20070196892
METHOD OF CONVERTING A FERMENTATION BYPRODUCT INTO OXYGEN AND BIOMASS AND RELATED SYSTEMS
http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=9&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&p=1&S1=((%22gs+cleantech%22.AS.)+OR+%22winsness%22)&OS=AN/")
Seems to be the add on to the Bayless patent for the Algae bioreactor by putting it into the Ethanol plant. Note Winsness, Chairman Kreisler, Dr. Krablin are listed as inventors. A different combination of inventors than the rest of the patents.
Notice that the traditional Ethanol Plant produces three products in equal measure by weight. CO2, Liquid fuel (ethanol and corn oil), and feed (DDGs).
Use of the bioreactor in as described in this patent would change those products to Oxygen, Fuel (large increase) and DDGs.
The elegance found at the Ethanol Plant for a bioreactor is feeding the boiler exhaust and the fermentation exhaust into the bioreactor. The algae produced is then fed back into the fermentation process as fuel. Production is increased. CO2 is reduced or eliminated. "Elegant" solutions are simple solutions to complex problems.
So how come the SkunK has been called "simple" - but never "elegant"! :~)
SkunK