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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2006
Dennis J. Miller, Okemos, MI (US);
Lars Peereboom, Haslett, MI (US);
Aspi K. Kolah, East Lansing, MI (US);
Navinchandra S. Asthana, East Lansing, MI (US);
Carl T. Lira, East Lansing, MI (US);
Dennis J. Miller, Okemos, MI (US);
Lars Peereboom, Haslett, MI (US);
Aspi K. Kolah, East Lansing, MI (US);
Navinchandra S. Asthana, East Lansing, MI (US);
Carl T. Lira, East Lansing, MI (US);
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (US);
Abstract
A process for the preparation of a fuel oil (diesel fuel or heating oil) composition which is a mixture of an alkanol tranesterified fatty acid ester triglyceride and an acetal of glycerol is described. The process preferably provides a prestep of the formation of at least some of the alkanol transesterified triglyceride containing the glycerol for use in the formation of the acetal of glycerol. The composition can also be formed from a reaction of 1,1-dimethoxy- or 1,1-diethoxyethane and glycerol to form the acetal in the alkanol transesterified triglyceride.