Patent ID: 7785848

Claim:
A method for increasing the growth of mesophilic ethanologenic microbes, applying FIR-inducing natural minerals, which comprise at least one mineral selected from the group consisting of: agalmatolite, albite, anorthite, antigorite, aplite, betalite, biotite, char coal, chlorite, clinochlore, clinoptillolite, garnet, glauconite, illite, jade, kyanite, leonardite, mica, microcline, muscovite, olivine, orthoclase, pascalite, phlogopite, plagioclase, pyrophyllite, sanidine, sericite, sepiolite, serpentine, sillimanite, staurolite, tourmaline and volcano ash; to a fermenter filled with a fermentation mash under acidic conditions for a biomass conversion process, wherein the said microbes are exposed to a saccharide source, wherein the said microbes are yeast.