Biofuel

Ethanol fuels can be derived from renewable resources - dedicated agricultural crops such as corn, sugar cane, and molasses or from agricultural byproducts such as whey from cheese making and potato processing waste streams.

Enzymes such as alpha-amylase, glucoamylase, invertase and lactase hydrolyze starch, sucrose and lactose into fermentable sugars. The sugars are then fermented with yeast to produce ethanol. The production of grain, oilseed and textile fibers results in a substantial quantity of underutilized agricultural crop residues. Although it is desirable to return some of this cellulosic residue back to the soil, much of this material could be diverted to ethanol. The current best available technology for conversion employs an acid hydrolysis of the biomass into sugars. The enzymatic alternative, using cellulase and hemicellulase, avoids the use of strong acids and results in a cleaner stream of sugars for fermentation and fewer by-products.

Facing the primary challenge to meet the economic goals, CHEMZYME’s scientists team are deploying their vast knowledge on cellulose hydrolysis to produce fermentable sugar in an efficient way, both by engineering the Carbohydrase Enzyme itself and improving the conversion process many folds by Bio-process development....

The CHEMZYME delivers novel solutions biocide and antimicrobial action of high efficiency, specially developed to replace synthetic antibiotics in the manufacture of grain alcohol. Application of enzyme solutions in the area of grain processing already bring the following benefits:

| High effective reduction of bacterial contamination
| No affects yeast regardless of dosage
| Keep your activity from start to finish process
| Excellent cost-efficiency
| Natural product does not generate bacterial resistance
| No need to perform rotations
| Effective against bacteria, without affecting yeast