Process for Increasing Throughput of Corn for Oil Extraction

• Main Authors: INGVALSON JOEL, BEAVER MICHAEL J, VAN HOUTEN MICHAEL, TUPY MICHAEL J, FOX EUGENE J, KOTOWSKI DOUGLAS C, MCWILLIAMS PAUL J, PATIST ALEXANDER, LOHRMANN TROY T, EYAL AHARON M, JAKEL NEAL T
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 23.10.2008
• Subjects: ADDING MATERIALS TO FUELS OR FIRES TO REDUCE SMOKE ORUNDESIRABLE DEPOSITS OR TO FACILITATE SOOT REMOVAL; ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES AND WAXES; CANDLES; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING; DERIVATIVES OF NATURAL MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; DERIVATIVES THEREOF; DETERGENTS; EDIBLE OILS OR FATS, e.g. MARGARINES, SHORTENINGS, COOKINGOILS; ESSENTIAL OILS; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; FIRELIGHTERS; FODDER; FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS; FOODS, FOODSTUFFS, OR NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES A23B - A23J; FUELS; FUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; HUMAN NECESSITIES; HYGIENE; IMPREGNATING OR COATING OF PAPER; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; LUBRICANTS; MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; METALLURGY; NATURAL GAS; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; PAPER NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PAPER-MAKING; PEAT; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PERFUMES; PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; POLYSACCHARIDES; PREPARATION THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES D21C OR D21D; PREPARATIONS FOR MEDICAL, DENTAL, OR TOILET PURPOSES; PREPARATORY TREATMENT OF GRAIN FOR MILLING; PREPARING GRAIN FOR MILLING; PRESERVATION OF FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS, IN GENERAL; PRODUCING (PRESSING, EXTRACTION), REFINING AND PRESERVINGFATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES (e.g. LANOLIN), FATTY OILS AND WAXES,INCLUDING EXTRACTION FROM WASTE MATERIALS; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE; PULP COMPOSITIONS; REFINING GRANULAR FRUIT TO COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS BY WORKING THESURFACE; SPECIFIC USE OF COSMETICS OR SIMILAR TOILETPREPARATIONS; SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES C10G, C10K; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; TEXTILES; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; THEIR PREPARATION OR TREATMENT, e.g. COOKING, MODIFICATION OFNUTRITIVE QUALITIES, PHYSICAL TREATMENT; THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES; TRANSPORTING; TREATMENT OF FINISHED PAPER NOT COVERED BY CLASS B31 OR SUBCLASS D21G

Corn oil is extracted from corn to form a corn meal. Processing the corn grain to obtain the oil, meal, and other product streams generally includes dividing the corn kernel by fractionating to create a higher oil fraction and a lower oil fraction, forming a solvent extractable structure from the higher oil fraction, and extracting the oil from the higher oil fraction. The extracted corn oil is useful for making nutritionally enhanced edible oil or cooking oil, lubricants, biodiesel, fuel, cosmetics and oil-based or oil-containing chemical products. The extracted corn meal is useful for making enhanced animal feed rations, snack food, blended food products, cosmetics, and fermentation broth additive. The lower oil fraction is useful for one or more processes such as fermentation, wet-milling, animal feed production, sweetener production, and starch production, making enhanced animal feed rations, snack food, blended food products, and cosmetics.