An alcohol spirits beverage made from a specific feedstock of Cannabaceae plant family agricultural waste and discarded plant components including the roots, stems, leaves and manufacturing waste streams from the medical and recreational Hemp and Marijuana industry and or industrial Hemp.

The invention establishes a standardized method whereby Hemp and Marijuana waste streams are destroyed through the anaerobic digestion that occurs during fermentation. The method converts raw and or processed Cannabaceae plant family feedstock that is cleansed, hydrolyzed, fermented and distilled to create a new category of pure food grade alcohol spirits beverage that is uniquely distinguishable by virtue of its physical specifications and sensorial properties, flavor profile, aroma and overall character that separates it into a unique category from the five (5) primary alcohol spirits beverages such as Whiskey, Vodka, Tequila, Rum and Gin.

Regenerative vapor energy recovery system and method for use with an ethanol plant. Regenerative vapors are partially condensed in a regenerative precondenser using a warm water stream. The warm water stream is fed to the regenerative precondenser and the partially condensed regenerative vapor stream is sent back to the ethanol plant where the stream is fully condensed using an existing condenser. The ethanol plant is thus operated at greater energy efficiency with lower operating costs than would be achieved with conventional systems.

A system and method for continuous ethanol recovery from high solids corn slurry mash fermentation in an ethanol plant.

A method is disclosed for improving the energy efficiency of biorefinery drying operations through integration of a dryer that utilizes the heat of condensation of process vapors to dry material whose emissions are captured with energy recovery. The dryer separates clean process vapors (e.g., ethanol) and steam from vapors containing volatile organic compounds and entrained materials, to minimize the need for vapor cleanup. An indirect dryer condenses vapors in a tube dryer similar to a steam tube dryer, but utilizing compressed process vapors, transferring the heat to wet material undergoing drying. The resulting exhaust vapors are either directed to a process stage that requires heat (e.g., distillation) and minimizes the need for vapor cleanup or to an out-of-contact heat exchanger that produces vapors for process use, or to another dryer as an additional effect. Mechanical-vapor recompression or thermal-vapor recompression are employed to produce vapors that optimize overall energy recovery.

A method of obtaining ketones from a fermentation process may include collecting an off-gas and a fermented broth from a fermenter, transferring the off-gas from the fermenter to a ketone recuperation module and the fermented broth to a fluid separating module, and isolating the ketones from both the off-gas and the fermented broth. The off-gas and the fermented broth may both comprise a ketone

The present invention relates to processes of recovering oil after liquefaction and/or from thin stillage and/or syrup/evaporated centrate from a fermentation product production process by adding a thermostable protease to the whole stillage, thin stillage and/or syrup.

The present disclosure relates to a composition that includes

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where R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 include at least one of a hydrogen, a hydroxyl group, and/or an alkyl group, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 include at least one of hydrogen, a hydroxyl group, an alkyl group, and/or a ketone, and 1n2000.

A method of producing ethanol includes: a continuous ethanol fermentation step including culturing a microorganism with a fermentation feedstock containing cane molasses as a main component, filtering the resulting culture liquid through a separation membrane to recover a filtrate containing the ethanol and from which the microorganism has been removed; retaining or returning an unfiltered liquid containing the microorganism, in or to the culture liquid; and adding an additional fermentation feedstock to the culture liquid, and an ethanol concentration and purification step including distilling the filtrate collected in the continuous ethanol fermentation step and contains the ethanol, wherein the microorganism causes a centrifugal supernatant of the culture liquid to contain particles having an average particle diameter of 100 nm or more, and particles formed by the microorganism culture and contained in the filtrate containing ethanol have an average particle diameter of 40 to 80 nm.

A continuous distillation process comprises the following steps: putting a material into a multilayer distillation tower to enable the material to sequentially undergo preheating, extrusion pricking, steam distillation, meal roasting, drying and cooling treatment, condensing essential oil-containing steam, and carrying out water separation, so as to obtain an essential oil.

A system and method for producing substantially anhydrous ethanol, methanol or other volatile chemicals includes: (a) a first distillation stripping column or column set with overhead vapors compressed using mechanical vapor recompression to strip off a weak ethanol overheads; (b) a second distillation rectifying column having a higher operating temperature than the stripping column; (c) a dehydration means in fluid communication with the rectifying column; (d) reboiler for the stripping column which partially condenses the vapor from the mechanical vapor recompression, (e) a trim condenser which completes the condensing of the vapor/liquid mix of the reboiler, (f) a heat recovery circuit which condenses the rectifying column overheads and molecular sieve dry ethanol condenser and (g) a heat exchange to transfer the recovered heat of (f) to the first distillation stripping column reboiler feed.