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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2018
Applicant:
Sunpine Ab, Piteå, SE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SUNPINE AB, Piteå, SE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C11B 13/00 (2006.01); C10G 9/00 (2006.01); C10L 1/02 (2006.01); C10G 11/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C11B 13/00 (2013.01); C10G 9/00 (2013.01); C10L 1/02 (2013.01); C10G 11/02 (2013.01); C10G 2300/4006 (2013.01); C10L 2200/0469 (2013.01); C10L 2290/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention describes a method for the treatment of tall oil pitch (TOP), said method comprising heating the TOP and optionally additives including water and steam to a temperature of at least 300° C.; maintaining the temperature in the reactor at 300° C. or higher for a period of time to enable thermal treatment of the TOP to act on components thereof to produce fatty acids and/or rosin acids, and/or derivatives thereof, and/or unsaponifiables and/or derivatives having lower molecular weight compared to the high molecular weight components with molecular weights of at least 350 g/mole present in the original TOP, to yield a modified TOP material with lower viscosity.