Patent ID: 8450092
Filing Date: 2013-05-28
Classification: A01D,B01D,C12P,C13B,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A method for harvesting and processing sugar-containing crops growing in ground in a field with a mobile field harvester, the method comprising: (a) cutting the sugar-containing crop close to the ground, but above the ground, near a base of said sugar-containing crop; (b) feeding the sugar-containing crop into a roller press in a mobile field harvester; (c) extracting juices from a solid component of the sugar-containing crop in the roller press within the mobile field harvester; (d) using a forward feed pump operatively attached to the mobile field harvester to pump at least some of the juices extracted from the roller press back into the roller press for helping to moisten the solid component of the sugar containing crop; (e) adding water to the sugar-containing crop to further moisten the solid component of the sugar containing crop as it passes through the roller press wherein the step of adding water to the sugar-containing crop comprises: (f) using the juices to make ethanol using at least one portable fermentation container located at or close to the field where the sugar containing crop was grown and harvested.