MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517059394 A) filed by E101 Empresa De Techs Para Etanol Ltda, Santa Barbara d'Oeste, Brazil, on June 20, for 'process for producing ethanol on industrial scale.'
Inventor(s) include Biondo, Ronaldo; and Rischbieter, Ivo.
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 invention refers to a process for producing ethanol on industrial scale, comprising the provision of a source of carbon comprising hydrolyzed sucrose as the carbon source for the alcoholic fermentation step by leaven. The present invention also refers to a system to perform said process, comprising at least one alcoholic fermentation unit, to which a source of carbon comprising hydrolyzed sucrose is provided as a carbon source for leaven. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, sucrose hydrolysis is performed by enzymatic inversion as obtained from leaven produced by the industrial productive chain of ethanol itself. The invention also refers to the use of a source of carbon comprising hydrolyzed sucrose as the carbon source for the alcoholic fermentation step by leaven. The embodiments of the present invention allow to reach an increase in the conversion rate of sucrose reducing sugars into ethanol, which is observed at the end of the alcoholic fermentation step."
The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 23, 2023, under International application No.PCT/BR2023/050409.
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