MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517048748 A) filed by Neste Oyj, Espoo, Finland, on May 20, for 'an aquaculture system and methods for removing glycerol from the aquaculture system.'
Inventor(s) include Kanel, Jeffrey; Churn III, Cecil; Lakaniemi, Aino-Maija; and Koskinen, Perttu.
The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure relates to methods for removing glycerol from an aquaculture system. These methods can include: culturing a first population of microorganisms that produce glycerol in a first reaction zone, thereby providing an aqueous stream containing a microbial biomass material that includes glycerol; inputting the aqueous stream containing the microbial biomass material that includes glycerol to a harvesting zone; separating the microbial biomass from the glycerol in the harvesting zone, thereby providing an aqueous glycerol stream; supplying the aqueous glycerol stream to a second reaction zone containing a second population of microorganisms that metabolize glycerol; and removing glycerol from the aqueous glycerol stream by cultivating the second population of microorganisms in the second reaction zone with the aqueous glycerol stream, thereby providing an enriched aqueous stream containing glycerol metabolites. Systems for performing the above methods are also provided."
The patent application was internationally filed on Dec. 22, 2023, under International application No.PCT/FI2023/050729.
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