US Patent Issued to SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY on May 27 for "Method of ethanol fermentation with cellulose at high-solids loading" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,626, issued on May 27, was assigned to SOUTH CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY (Guangdong, China).

"Method of ethanol fermentation with cellulose at high-solids loading" was invented by Hongdan Zhang (Guangdong, China) and Xinwen Zhang (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides an ethanol fermentation method with cellulose at high-solids loading. The method includes: mixing lignocellulose A treated with NaOH-enhanced ethanol solution and lignocellulose B treated with AlCl3-enhanced ethanol solution, adding water, and mixing to obtain a mixed cellulose solution; then adding a nutrient salt, sterilizing...