US Patent Issued to ICM on July 14 for "System and method for enhanced ethanol production" (Kansas, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,794, issued on July 14, was assigned to ICM Inc. (Colwich, Kan.).

"System and method for enhanced ethanol production" was invented by David VanderGriend (Wichita, Kan.), Wayne Clutter (Goddard, Kan.) and John Freidig (Pillager, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for producing ethanol comprises a rectifier column that receives a first process stream comprising from about 42% to about 60% ethanol, wherein the rectifier column purifies the first process stream to provide an ethanol product stream that is at least about 90% ethanol, and one or more evaporators configured to evaporate water from a second process stream, wherein...