Lanza Tech New Zealand Limited Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20130203143 | Methods and Systems for the Production of Hydrocarbon Products - Methods and systems for the production of hydrocarbon products, including providing a substrate comprising CO to a bioreactor containing a culture of one or more micro-organisms; and fermenting the culture in the bioreactor to produce one or more hydrocarbon products. The substrate comprising CO is derived from a CO | 08-08-2013 |
20120040421 | ACID PRODUCTION BY FERMENTATION - The invention provides methods for producing Lactate by anaerobic Fermentation. According to particular methods of the invention, Lactate is produced by anaerobic fermentation of a substrate comprising hydrogen and carbon monoxide. | 02-16-2012 |
20110294177 | OPTIMISED FERMENTATION MEDIA - The invention relates to improvements in the production of alcohols by microbial fermentation, particularly to production of alcohols by microbial fermentation of substrates comprising CO. It more particularly relates to the provision of an improved fermentation media, comprising nickel, to a fermentation system such that one or more micro-organisms convert a substrate comprising CO to one or more alcohols, such as ethanol. In particular embodiments, a microbial culture is provided with at least 10 μM nickel, such that CO uptake by the microbial culture increases and ethanol productivity improves. | 12-01-2011 |
20110275053 | ALCOHOL PRODUCTION PROCESS - The invention relates to the production of products such as alcohols and acids by microbial fermentation, particularly microbial fermentation of substrates comprising CO. It more particularly relates to methods and systems for improving efficiency of products by microbial fermentation. In particular embodiments, the invention provides a method of optimising production of desired products including the step of ascertaining the proportion of CO converted to CO2. | 11-10-2011 |
20110269197 | ALCOHOL PRODUCTION PROCESS - The invention relates to methods for improving the efficiency of carbon capture in microbial fermentation of a gaseous substrate comprising CO and/or H2. In certain aspects the invention relates to improving the efficiency of carbon capture in the microbial fermentation of gaseous substrate comprising CO and/or H2 to produce alcohol(s) and/or acid(s). In particular the invention relates to methods for improving the efficiency of carbon capture in carboxydotrophic fermentation. | 11-03-2011 |
20110250629 | ALCOHOL PRODUCTION PROCESS - The invention relates to the microbial fermentation of gaseous substrates, particularly to methods of mitigating and/or reducing alcohol toxicity effects on a microbial culture at elevated alcohol concentrations during fermentation. The invention relates particularly to microbial fermentation of substrates comprising CO and the effects of alcohol toxicity are reduced or mitigated by maintaining the temperature below the optimum operating temperature by cooling the fermentation broth. | 10-13-2011 |
20110212433 | ALCOHOL PRODUCTION PROCESS - The invention relates to the production of products such as alcohols and acids by microbial fermentation, particularly microbial fermentation of substrates comprising CO. It more particularly relates to methods and systems for improving efficiency of production products by microbial fermentation. In particular embodiments, the invention provides a method of controlling substrate supply, such that production of desired metabolites is optimised. | 09-01-2011 |
20110144393 | PRODUCTION OF BUTANEDIOL BY ANAEROBIC MICROBIAL FERMENTATION - The invention provides methods for producing 2,3-butanediol by anaerobic fermentation. According to particular methods of the invention, 2,3-butanediol is produced by anaerobic fermentation of substrates including carbohydrate and carbon monoxide. | 06-16-2011 |
20110059499 | MICROBIAL ALCOHOL PRODUCTION PROCESS - The invention relates to the production of alcohols by microbial fermentation, particularly to production of alcohols by microbial fermentation of substrates comprising CO. It more particularly relates to processes for the production of alcohols from their corresponding acids in the presence of a substrate comprising CO. In particular embodiments, a fermentation reaction producing acid(s) and optionally alcohol(s) is perturbed such that at least a portion one or more of acid(s) is converted to alcohol. | 03-10-2011 |