Genencor Launches Improved Acid Fungal Protease for Use in the Ethanol Industry
According to the company, the new FERMGEN(TM) protease enzyme offers a number of benefits which include: faster ethanol fermentation rates and yield for corn, milo or wheat based substrates as compared with fermentations without acid fungal protease; increased essential yeast nutrients in the form of amino acids, peptides and free amino nitrogen; hydrolyzes protein matrices in the corn kernel that bind the various fractions thereby enabling the hydrolysis of the "hard" to hydrolyze starch; and effectiveness at a pH of 3.0 - 4.5, which is complimented by the average current fermentation pH that is employed in the fuel ethanol industry.
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