Patent ID: 8663725

Claim:
A method for deriving a protein powder from fish, the method comprising: obtaining raw fish material containing protein, oil, and water derived from said raw fish material; grinding said raw fish material to obtain ground fish material; apportioning said ground fish material; apportioning enough organic solvent to dissolve the apportioned ground fish material into a viscous liquid during baking, at least a portion of the enough organic solvent coming from an additive storage tank; mixing the apportioned ground fish material with the apportioned organic solvent to produce a mixture comprising the viscous liquid; baking said mixture in a reactor at a temperature sufficiently low so that there is negligible separation of oil and water in the mixture, thereby preventing destabilization of the mixture and maintaining protein potency of the mixture; performing a first filtration of said mixture to produce a meal and a heavy liquid; distilling, in one or more distillation units, the heavy liquid to separate the apportioned organic solvent from a remainder comprising oil and the water, the one or more distillation units using a magnetic field to magnetically align molecules in the heavy liquid during separation; centrifuging the remainder to separate the oil from the water; performing an active filtration on said meal to further extract the at least one organic solvent; delivering the extracted organic solvent to the additive storage tank; grinding said meal to yield granularity of a fine texture; curing said meal to produce a protein powder; purifying the oil; storing the purified oil; purifying the water; and bottling the water.