Bacteria Control

Antibiotic-free Antimicrobial Process Aids

Hydrite offers a vast line of products that helps improve ethanol fermentation performance, enhances overall yeast vitality, and promotes metabolic activity while reducing bacterial contamination.  This includes non-antibiotic antimicrobial technology for fermentation, propagation, and upstream and downstream ethanol processes. Hydrite offers gram-negative/gram-positive antimicrobial solutions designed for utilization in fuel ethanol fermentations.

Products

Hydri-Maize 2759: Antibiotic-free antimicrobial used in ethanol fermenation

Hydri-Maize HC2759 was introduced into a fuel ethanol facility (from the 12 surveyed) with high gram-negative and gram-positive bacterial counts (> 1.0 x 105 cells/ml). The same facility was also using greater than 15 1/2-oz bags of antibiotics. The simple test protocol was as follows:

After applying the simple test protocol above, the test facility was able to:

• Decrease antibiotic usage by more than 60%
• Decrease acetic acid content by 28% when measured at the ferm drop confirming HC2759’s effectiveness against gram-negative bacteria strains.
• Decrease lactic acid content by 41%, suggesting that HC2759 is freeing up more sugar for fermentation.

Overall, the value created for this ethanol operation was a decrease in antimicrobial costs by 40% and a dramatic reduction in both gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria content per fermenter.

Fermentation Performance Case Study

Hydritreat SB2216: Highest strength antibiotic-free antimicrobial

HYDRITREAT BENEFITS

• Hydritreat is effective against gram (+) & (-) bacteria
• No known bacteria resistance to Hydritreat
• Reduces need for antibiotics
• Generally Regarded As Safe for animal feed and FSMA compliant
• More cost effective than antibiotics

Lactobacillus Reduction Case Study