NOVELTY - Producing (M1) a product comprises: clarifying a thin stillage (202) product in a mechanical processor to produce a fine suspended solids stream and clarified thin stillage; and providing the thin stillage product and the clarified thin stillage, separately or in a combined stream, to at least one evaporator (204) to produce at least one reduced suspended solids stream, where each stream has a reduced amount of suspended solids and a lower viscosity as compared to process streams having a comparable total solids content and which contains a higher amount of suspended solids.    USE - The methods are useful for producing: a product which is clarified concentrated thin stillage, clarified thin stillage, fine suspended solids stream, a molasses product, dry distiller's solubles, wet cake product, distiller's dry grain and/or distiller's dry grain solubles; and a bio-product which is a biofuel or biochemical (all claimed).    ADVANTAGE - The method: utilizes clarifying step and thus increases bio-product production yield and reduces emissions from the bio-product production facility; removes the suspended solids, so that soluble solids are now easier to concentrate, as a result, water can be removed in a more efficient manner, thus reducing operating costs, such as natural gas costs for dryers; provides for enhanced recovery of bio-oil from alcohol production co-products; provides improved production rate by operating the evaporators at a higher temperature, thus reducing the energy required for evaporation; and produces dried distillers grains with solubles which meet current minimum market levels of 8 vol.% bio-oil content, and contain an increased amount of protein, and a reduced sulfur and ash content.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - INDEPENDENT CLAIMS are also included for:    (1) a product made by the method (M1);    (2) producing (M2) a bio-oil product, comprising producing a product by the method (M1) and subjecting at least one of the reduced suspended solids streams to mechanical processing to produce a bio-oil product;    (3) producing (M3) a bio-oil product comprising clarifying a thin stillage product to produce at least one reduced suspended solids stream, each having a total solids content of 30-90 wt.%, where the total solids content comprises suspended solids and dissolved solids, and the suspended solids comprise less than 25 wt.% of the total solids content;    (4) a system comprising a clarifier for clarifying the thin stillage product and at least one evaporator for evaporating the thin stillage product and the clarified thin stillage to produce the reduced suspended solids stream; and    (5) reducing a dryer load in a bio-product production facility comprising clarifying the thin stillage product and providing the thin stillage product and the clarified thin stillage, separately or in a combined stream, to the evaporators to produce reduced suspended solids streams, where the dryer load is reduced as compared to a method performed without a clarifying step.    DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING(S) - The figure shows a schematic illustration of a suspended solids separation system in combination with a bio-oil recovery system capable of producing an emulsion concentrate.    Thin stillage (202)    Thin stillage product tank (203)    Evaporator (204)    Clarified concentrated thin stillage (205)    Molasses product (206)