8393 results about "Cellulase" patented technology

The invention discloses a preparation method of a raw dendrobium officinale pulp beverage. The preparation method comprises the following steps of: (1), baking a fresh dendrobium officinale branch to be purple, adding water to the baked fresh dendrobium officinale branch for pulping, so as to obtain a primary serous fluid; (2), carrying out insulation treatment on the primary serous fluid, boiling and filtering the primary serous fluid, so as to obtain filter residue; (3) adding water to the filter residue for pulping, boiling and filtering the filter residue again to obtain the filter residue, repeating the sub-steps for a plurality of times, adding water to the final filter residue for the pulping, so as to obtain secondary serous fluid; (4), adding a cellulolytic enzyme into the secondary serous fluid for carrying out enzymolysis, so as to obtain an enzymolysis solution; (5) boiling and filtering the enzymolysis solution, to obtain the filter residue; (6) adding water into the filter residue for the pulping, boiling and filtering the filter residue again, to obtain the filter residue, and repeating the sub-steps for a plurality of times; (7) mixing all the filter solutions, boiling and sterilizing the mixed filter solution, so as to obtain the raw dendrobium officinale pulp beverage. The preparation method provided by the invention has the advantages that dendrobium officinale is baked, the filter residue is subjected to enzymolysis treatment, the extraction rate of functionality polyose and flavone is improved, the content of dietary fiber in the beverage is increased, and the prepared beverage color is bright and stable.

The present invention provides nucleotide sequences of Aspegillus fumigatus that encode proteins which exhibit enzyme activities. Vectors, expression constructs, and host cells comprising the nucleotide sequences of the enzyme genes are also provided. The invention further provides methods for producing the enzymes, and methods for modifying the enzymes in order to improve their desirable characteristics. The activities displayed by the enzymes of the invention include those of a tannase, cellulase, glucose oxidase, glucoamylase, phytase, beta-galactosidases, invertase, lipase, alpha-amylase, laccase, polygalacturonase or xylanase. The enzymes of the invention can be used in a variety of industrial processes. Enzymatically active compositions in various forms as well as antibodies to the enzymes and fragments thereof, are also provided.

An isolated Bacillus amyloliquefaciens Ba-BPD1 having an Accession No. of DSM 21836 is provided. This novel strain has unique 16S ribosomal RNA sequenced as SEQ ID NO:1 and produces amylase, protease, cellulase and lipase, fibrinolytic enzyme to show their biodegradation capacities. Further, B. amyloliquefaciens Ba-BPD1 produces the antibiotic substances, such as iturin, fengycin and surfactin, and has antimicrobial capacity for inhibiting the fungal or bacterial growth. In conclusion, the novel strain of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens Ba-BPD1 and its products can be applied in agriculture, wastewater treatment, food industry and chemical industry.

Enhanced removal and / or control of adhesives or sticky materials, “stickies”, from recovered paper stock or virgin pulp fibers is achieved using a combination of enzyme treatment with adsorbents and / or absorbents. Pulp stock to be treated is typically obtained from old magazines, newspapers, household waste, but may include corrugated boxes and office waste. Virgin pulps may include mechanical, chemical, or semi-chemical pulps. Enzymes typically include hydrolases such as cellulases, hemicellulases, pectinases, amylases, and lipases such as esterases, lyases such as pectate lyases, and oxidoreductases. Adsorbents include activated bentonite, microparticles, talc, clay and modified silica. Absorbents typically include water soluble polymers, dispersants, coagulatants and agglomerants.

The invention relates to a fluorescent pseudomonad DA4 strain as well as an acquisition method and application thereof. The fluorescent pseudomonad DA4 strain has pectase and hemicellulase producing capacity and flax degumming activity. The fluorescent pseudomonad strain screened by the invention has fast propagation, high antipollution capacity and good heat and alkali resistance; since a composite degumming enzyme solution is used for flax degumming, the degumming period is shortened greatly, and the system and the culturing process is safe for operation without toxicity or environmental pollution; the invention can shorten the flax degumming period, enhance the flax yield and the strength of flax fibers, improve the quality of the flax fibers by adopting the composite degumming enzyme solution for flax microbial degumming, thereby being beneficial to popularization; in addition, the invention can not only be used for flax raw stem degumming, roving scouring and the biological pretreatment of flax fabrics, but also can be used for the degumming and the biological pretreatment of hemp bast fibers, i.e. ramie, jute, hemps, and the like.

The invention discloses a preparation method of a novel vegetable and fruit fermented beverage. The preparation method comprises the steps of: firstly carrying out enzymolysis on mixed fresh juice of fresh vegetables and fruits after dilution and size mixing by adopting cellulase, fermenting by adopting a mixed lactic acid starter after adding sugar and corn oligopeptide as fermentation substrates and sterilizing, adding calcium carbonate when the pH reaches 4.0, and then inoculating leuconostoc mesenteroides for continuous fermentation; adding a feed supplement and sterilizing when the pH reaches 3.5, and then adding high-activity dry yeast for the fermentation for 2-3 days; and finally performing sterilization, centrifugation, homogenizing, blending, sterilizing and filling to obtain the novel vegetable and fruit fermented functional beverage. The enzymolysis is firstly carried out on a product by the cellulase, then lactic acid bacteria and saccharomycetes are utilized for the step-by-step fermentation of the mixed fresh juice of the fresh vegetables and fruits, and the corn oligopeptide is added to promote the growth and the metabolism of fermentation strains, so that the novel vegetable and fruit fermented beverage has clear composition of functional components, contains abundant oligopeptide, organic acids, reducing sugars, sugar alcohols and soluble dietary fiber, and integrates nutrition and health care, thus being a novel vegetable and fruit fermented beverage.

A process for the enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose to produce a hydrolysis product comprising glucose from a pretreated lignocellulosic feedstock and enzymes for use in the process are provided. The process comprises hydrolyzing an aqueous slurry of a pretreated lignocellulosic feedstock with cellulase enzymes, one or more than one β-glucosidase enzyme and a binding agent for binding the β-glucosidase enzyme to fiber solids present in the aqueous slurry. During the hydrolysis, both the cellulase enzyme and β-glucosidase enzyme bind to the fiber solids. The hydrolysis is performed in a solids-retaining hydrolysis reactor so that unhydrolyzed fiber solids and bound enzyme are retained in the reactor longer than the aqueous phase of the slurry.

The present invention describes a process for at least a 90% conversion of a plant biomass preferably by a reduction of the units of cellulase needed and by using a xylanase which acts synergistically with the cellulase to improve the yield of xylose and glucose as sugars. The process enables greater conversion of a lignocellulosic plant biomass to glucose and xylose for use as animal feeds and as fermentation as medium for producing ethanol.

The present invention provides transgenic plants expressing one or more cell wall degrading enzymes that can degrade lignocellulose to fermentable sugars. These fermentable sugars can further be fermented to ethanol or other products. The enzymes are directed to the plastids or the apoplasts or the transgenic plant for storage. When the transgenic plants are harvested, the plants are ground to release the enzymes which then are used to degrade the lignocellulose of plant material to produce the fermentable sugars. The transgenic plants express the flowering locus c gene so that flowering is delayed and the plant biomass is increased.

The present invention is directed to a method of pre-treating a lignocellulosic feedstock. The lignocellulosic feedstock comprises cereal straw, stover, or grass. One or more than one bale of lignocellulosic feedstock is conveyed into a pre-treatment reactor. Steam and acid are added to the bales and are maintained at a temperature, acid concentration, and for a time sufficient to hydrolyze hemicellulose to xylose and increase susceptibility of cellulose to digestion by cellulase enzymes, thus producing a pre-treated feedstock. The pre-treated feedstock is then removed from the pre-treatment reactor.

The present invention relates to microbial fodder additive, and a kind of microbial fodder additive comprising beneficial microbes and their metabolites and its preparation process and use. The microbial fodder additive is the mixture of fermented liquid or dry powder obtained with Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus cereus, lactobacillus and Saccharomyices cerevisiae and through high density deep layer liquid fermentation. It may be prepared into different specific liquid or powder preparations. The microbial fodder additive has high live bacillus content, long product preserving period and less foreign bacteria contamination, and has the functions of raise fodder utilization, promote animal's growth, increase animal product yield and quality, etc.

The invention relates to a bio-protein feed prepared by adopting a cellulose raw material, and the bio-protein feed provided by the invention comprises an organic material and complex bacteria, wherein the weight of the complex bacteria is 1-10% of that of the organic material; and the organic material comprises the cellulose raw material, rapeseed meal and bran; the cellulose raw material is one or more of corn stalks, corn cobs, straw, manioc waste and fruit residue; and the complex bacteria comprises bacillus subtilis, microzyme, lactobacillus and cellulose decomposition bacteria, and the cellulose decomposition bacteria is one or more of trichoderma harzianum and white-rot fungi. In the bio-protein feed, the content of probiotics is more than 108cfu / g, the bio-protein feed contains a variety of prolease, cellulase, amylase and the like, the preparation process is simple, and the fermentation period is short. The invention further discloses a preparation method of the feed.

A process for obtaining a product sugar stream from cellulosic biomass is disclosed. In one process, the cellulosic biomass is pretreated at a pH between about 0.4 to 2.0 by adding one or more than one acid to produce a pretreated cellulosic biomass comprising acetic acid. One or more than one base is then added to the pretreated cellulosic biomass to adjust the pretreated cellulosic biomass to a pH of about 4.0 to about 6.0 to produce a neutralized cellulosic biomass comprising inorganic salt and acetate salt. The neutralized biomass is then hydrolyzed by cellulase enzymes to produce a crude sugar stream. Insoluble residue is separated from the crude sugar stream and the resulting clarified sugar stream is treated using ion exclusion chromatography at about pH 5.0 to about 10.0 to produce one or more raffinate streams and a product stream. The raffinate stream comprises inorganic salts and acetate salts, and the product stream comprises sugar. The product stream may then be fermented or otherwise further processed. In an alternate process, a product sugar stream is obtained from a crude sugar stream that is produced from conversion of cellulosic biomass to sugar. The cellulosic biomass may be produced using any suitable method. In this process the crude sugar stream is treated using ion exclusion chromatography at about pH 5.0 to about 10.0 to produce one or more than one raffinate stream comprising sulfate and acetate salts, and a product stream comprising sugar, and the product sugar stream is obtained.

A dual-effect microbial feed additive for ruminant is prepared through pulverizing corn, steaming, liquefying, saccharified, inoculating lactobacillus acidophilus and saccharomyce cerevisiae, fermenting to obtain living bacterium preparation, culturing bacillus subtilis, aspergillus oryzae and aspergillus niger in the culture medium prepared from corn, bran and soybean dregs, fermenting to obtain composite enzyme preparation, and proportionally mixing said living bacterium preparation with said composite enzyme preparation. It can promote the growth and health of ruminant and increase the utilization rate of feed.

The invention discloses a frozen dough modifying agent, which is prepared by evenly mixing an enzyme preparation (including one or a plurality of alpha-amylase, cellulose, hemicellulase, pentosanase, lipase, glucose oxidase, glutamine transaminage and so on), vitamin C, an emulsifying agent, a thickening agent, wheat gluten powder, lecithin and stuffing according to certain proportion. The frozen dough modifying agent has the advantages that the frozen dough modifying agent can effectively improve the stability of dough during fermentation and roasting processes, improve the freezing resistance property of yeasts, increase the volume of finished products, improve the tissue of the finished products, reduce the loss of the vitality of the yeasts during the freezing process, and effectively delay the aging of the finished products.

Compositions comprising cellulase and at least one poly alpha-1,3-glucan ether compound having a degree of substitution with an organic group of about 0.05-3.0 are disclosed. Such compositions can be dry or aqueous, the latter of which can have a viscosity of at least about 10 cPs. The disclosed composition can be in the form of a personal care product, household product, or industrial product, for example. Also disclosed are a method for preparing an aqueous composition comprising cellulase and a poly alpha-1,3-glucan ether compound, and a method of treating a material such as fabric by contacting it with this aqueous composition.

The invention discloses a method capable of carrying out green high-efficiency hydrolysis pretreatment on lignocellulose biomass. The method in the invention comprises the steps of hydrolyzing the hemicellulose in the cellulose biomass into saccharide products mainly containing xylose and oligose thereof using a two-step temperature-changing segmentation hydrolysis method so as to accomplish the pretreatment, and adding the pretreated solid raw material mainly containing cellulose and lignin to cellulase so as to accomplish enzymatic hydrolysis and recover the saccharide products to the utmost extent. The invention uses high-temperature liquid water as reaction medium, has the advantages that the method has low cost and is environment-friendly and green. The reaction conditions are moderate, the saccharide products are degraded less, and the recovery rate is high. By adopting the two-step temperature-changing segmentation hydrolysis method, the method not only hydrolyzes the hemicellulose to the utmost extent to obtain the saccharide products, but also further pre-treats the raw material such that the cellulose is made into glucose through enzymatic hydrolysis, reaching the purpose of protecting environment and hydrolyzing the lignocellulose biomass highly effectively. The raw material is capable of realizing waste utilization and promotes the development of green industries.

A process for producing ethanol from a fibrous lignocellulosic raw material. After pre-treatment of the raw material, the fibrous fraction is first hydrolysed at high consistency and then the modified material is subjected simultaneously to continued hydrolysis with a cellulase and to ethanol fermentation in a fermentation mixture. Fermentation is continued to convert an essential portion of the available cellulose into ethanol, then a liquid fraction containing solubilized hemicelluloses is added to the fermentation mixture and fermentation continued. By means of the invention, high fermentation rates, high ethanol concentrations and low ethanol production costs can be attained.

A scalable, energy efficient process for preparing cellulose nanofibers is disclosed. The process employs a depolymerizing treatment with one or both of: (a) a relatively high charge of ozone under conditions that promote the formation of free radicals to chemically depolymerize the cellulose fiber cell wall and interfiber bonds; or (b) a cellulase enzyme. Depolymerization may be estimated by pulp viscosity changes. The depolymerizing treatment is followed by or concurrent with mechanical comminution of the treated fibers, the comminution being done in any of several mechanical comminuting devices, the amount of energy savings varying depending on the type of comminuting system and the treatment conditions. Comminution may be carried out to any of several endpoint measures such as fiber length, % fines or slurry viscosity.

The invention discloses a strain of Streptomyces and application thereof. The biocontrol Streptomyces is blastmycin Streptomyces and its strain number is JZB130180, which is registered in the general microbiological center of China Committee for Culture Collection of Microorganisms with CGMCC No. 13270. The strain had significant antagonistic effect on 14 kinds of plant pathogenic fungi and 6 kinds of plant pathogenic bacteria in agricultural production, and has wide antimicrobial spectrum. The strain produces chitinase, cellulase, protease and selenium, and has the basic characteristics of biocontrol bacteria. The fermentation broth of this strain has strong control effect on tomato gray mold and peach brown rot, and has significant promotion action on the tomato plants, which indicated that the strain had a broad application prospect in the field of biological control of plant diseases.

The invention belongs to the technology field of grain processing, specifically a method for producing active germinated brown rice and products thereof. The method comprises the following steps: screening brown rice raw material to remove impurity, washing, sterilizing, soaking in a nutrient fluid supplemented with calcium lactate, gibberellin, phytase, cellulase and vitamin C for 10-36 hours at 10-40 DEG C, draining, incubating for 10-36 hours at 10-40 DEG C under relative humidity of 50-90% to allow germination, drying with hot air of 40-55 DEG C for 0.5-3 hours until the sprout grows about 0.5-1.2 mm in height, drying with 2-10 w / g microwave for 2-10 minutes until the water content of germinated brown rice is below 15%. Compared with the prior art, the germinated brown rice is nutritious, retains almost all nutrients of brown rice and has high nutritional value.

The invention discloses a complex enzyme preparation for feeding piglets. The complex enzyme preparation for feeding piglets comprises the following seven enzymes: acid protease, amylase, xylanase, beta-glucanase, cellulase, pectinase and phytase; and the enzymatic activity ratio of the seven enzymes is 1: 1: (8-10): (3.3-4): 1: (0.5-0.55): (0-0.02). By applying the complex enzyme preparation disclosed by the invention, various anti-nutritional factors in feed can be degraded, the viscosity of chyme in an intestinal tract can be reduced, and the metabolic energy of the feed can be improved; the protein and starch digestibility of the piglets can be improved; excessive reproduction of harmful microorganisms in the intestinal tract can be reduced, damage to the intestinal wall can be reduced, and the microecological balance of the intestinal tract can be regulated; the survival rate and disease resistance of the piglets can be improved, the diarrhea rate can be reduced, and the overall uniformity is improved; and the weight gaining of the piglets can be promoted, and the cultivation cost is reduced.

The invention discloses a method for producing a complex micro-ecological preparation with microbial agents and enzyme. According to the action principles and characteristics of every microbial strain, the method adopts scientific combination and adds enzyme preparations and acidifier to enable microorganisms in the product to grow rapidly and take dominance in fermented feed and animal bodies so as to reduce the growth opportunity of miscellaneous bacteria. The preparation comprises the following components: bacillus subtilis, lactobacillus plantarum, candida utilis yeast, lactobacillus acidophilus, protease, amylase, cellulase, xylanase, mannanase, galactosidase, pectinase and citric acid. As all strains of the product adopt liquid deep fermentation culture, the non-polluting property of the product is guaranteed. Liquid microbial agents ensure that the number of bacterial colonies of the product is more than 100 million and the product is free from the pollution of other miscellaneous bacteria, while solid microbial agents ensure that the number of bacterial colonies of the product is more than 1 billion and the proportion of miscellaneous bacteria to effective bacteria is not more than 0.0001. The preparation contains bacillus, lactic acid bacteria and yeast, can apply to the processes of making green-yellow storage feed, fermenting feed, soaking feed, and the like, can be directly added to feed for feeding, and can improve the growth performance of ruminant animals, poultry, pigs, aquatic products and special animals.

The invention relates to a method for recovering energy from the organic fraction of urban solid waste comprising the following steps: a) the organic fraction is pre treated with mineral acids, preferably sulfuric acid, during which the fraction is heated by an outer thermal jacket with no steam injection or steam explosion, thereby producing a first slurry containing an insoluble solid susceptible to enzymatic attack by cellulases; b) a step comprising enzymatic hydrolysis using cellulases and simultaneous fermentation, using an ethanologenic microorganism, of the first slurry in order to obtain a second slurry containing diluted ethanol; and c) distillation of the second slurry such as to obtain wet ethanol, a recyclable liquid effluent and a solid.

The invention belongs to the field of biological techniques and relates to a bacillus subtilis strain and a feed additive and a fermenting agent thereof. The bacillus subtilis has high stress resistance and probiotic effect, so the bacillus subtilis can tolerate artificial gastric juice with a pH value of 2.0 and a concentration of 1 percent, artificial cholate at a concentration of 0.3 percent and a granulating temperature of 80 DEG C; and the bacillus subtilis has a strong inhibiting effect on Escherichia coli K88, Escherichia coli K99 and staphylococcus aureus, high cellulase producing capacity and ability of degrading cellulose. The biological feed additive prepared by using the bacillus subtilis provided by the invention can be used in place of part of antibiotics in livestock and aquatic product culture, improve immunity in animal, improve feed conversion rate and lower culture cost. The bacillus subtilis also can be used in fermentation of bean pulp, cotton meal, vegetable mealand the like, prevent the feed from mildewing, promote the digestion of cellulose in feed and improve the utilization rate of nutrients in the feed.

The invention discloses a method for extracting fruit dreg dietary fiber through high-pressure microfluidization ultramicro crushing and enzymolysis coupling and belongs to the technical field of agricultural and sideline product waste deep processing. According to the method, water is added into peach dreg for dispersing the peach dreg, the pH is regulated, high-temperature-resistance alpha-amylase and protease are respectively used for enzymolysis for eliminating starch and protein, the peach dreg subjected to the enzymolysis is treated by a high-speed shearing instrument and is subjected to high-pressure microfluidization ultramicro crushing, then, cellulose is added for enzymolysis and centrifugation, filter liquid after enzymolysis and precipitates after enzymolysis are respectively obtained, the filter liquid is subjected to concentration, ethanol precipitation and vacuum drying to obtain high-activity water-soluble dietary fiber, and the precipitates are subjected to water washing and vacuum drying to obtain high-purity insoluble dietary fiber. Waste fruit dreg after the juice squeezing is utilized as raw materials, the fine and deep processing of agricultural and sideline products is realized, and the resource waste is reduced.

The present invention discloses a method for extracting rice protein from rice. Said method includes the following steps: cleaning rice, soaking, removing sand, grinding to make pulp, concentrating and drying rice protein; also includes the steps of fine-grinding rice pulp, adopting dished separating machine to make multistage separation and making the protein pulp undergo the process of enzyme treatment. The described enzyme treatment is characterized by that in the multistage separated and combined rice protein pulp the following enzymes are successively added to make reaction: adding 0.05%-0.2% of amylase, temp. is 60-70 deg.C and time is 40-60 min; adding 0.05%-0.2% of cellulase, temp. is 40-50 deg.C and time is 2-3 hr; and adding 0.1%-1% of lipase, temp. is 40-60 deg.C and time is 2-3 hr. Said method can implement industrial production of rice protein.

The present invention is steam blasting and alkaline hydrogen peroxide oxidizing process for treating stalk. The process includes the first steam blasting and drying treatment of stalk, the subsequent treatment in alkaline hydrogen peroxide solution at 30-40 deg.c for 12-36 hr, filtering to obtain filter residue, drying the filter residue, enzymolysis with cellulase in buffer liquid at 40-50 deg.c for 48-72 hr to obtain enzymolyzed liquid with sugar concentration of 104.68-110.97 g / l. After enzymolysis, the cellulase may be recovered.

A bio-enzyme consists of pectinase, protease, lipase, cellulose, catalase and amylase; the application of bio-enzyme catalysis in residual sludge treatment is that: the residual sludge is treated by utilizing the high-efficiency biocatalysis of the bio-enzyme, odor molecules in the sludge are decomposed and deodorized through enzyme technology, pathogenic bacteria, ova and larvae are killed by utilizing an acid environment formed by inorganic acid generated by the sludge and a high temperature environment in the fermentation process, heavy metal ions in the sludge are stabilized by utilizing the chelation of the bio-enzyme, and the sludge is catalyzed by the enzyme, so that the sludge and water are quickly separated, a large amount of supernate is discharged, the sludge volume is reduced, and the sludge in inland river is reduced and is subjected to innocent treatment; meanwhile, through the bio-enzyme catalysis, long-chain molecules in the sludge are converted into short-chain molecules, polysaccharide and cellulose are converted into protein and amino acid, nutritional components of organic fertilizers are remained, the fertilizer efficiency is improved and the fermentation period can be shortened.