Washington State University

Archer Daniels Midland Company

Colin Smith

Padmesh Venkitasubramanian

Kevin J Martin

Changjun Liu

Yong Wang

Junming Sun

Joshua Terrian

A process is described for making renewable para-xylene, comprising converting acetic acid to isobutene in the presence of a catalyst then converting the acetic acid-derived isobutene to a product composition including para-xylene. The catalyst can be a ZnZrOmixed oxide catalyst.

Renewable para-xylene from acetic acid

A process is described for making a product mixture including isobutene, propylene, 1-butene, 2-butene, 2-methyl-1-butene and 2-methyl-2-butene from a mixture of acetic acid and propionic and through reaction in the presence of a source of hydrogen and of a mixed oxide catalyst, for example, a ZnZrOmixed oxide catalyst. A variety of commercially valuable products may be made in turn from the various C, Cand Cconstituents of the product mixture.

Renewable olefins from a mixture of acetic acid and propionic acid

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Pullman, WA, United States of America

Colin Smith