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Biofuel composition and manufacturing process

US8444845B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Inventor

Rainer Busch · Aachen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 12, 2008
Grant date	May 21, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 13, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
CPC primaryC10L1/02
WIPO fieldOrganic fine chemistry
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A process for producing a fuel, which comprises the step of performing electrolysis on an alcoholic solution or a melt of a fatty acid or salt thereof or fatty acid ester or other derivative or precursor thereof, to decarboxylate said fatty acid or derivative, and produce a mixture of an ether and an alkene.

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