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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2009
Mark T. Holtzapple, College Station, TX (US);
Cesar B. Granda, College Station, TX (US);
Sebastian Taco-vasquez, Bryan, TX (US);
Michael Kyle Ross, Bryan, TX (US);
Gary Luce, Spring, TX (US);
John A. Spencer, Cypress, TX (US);
Rae L. Spencer, Cypress, TX (US);
Mark T. Holtzapple, College Station, TX (US);
Cesar B. Granda, College Station, TX (US);
Sebastian Taco-Vasquez, Bryan, TX (US);
Michael Kyle Ross, Bryan, TX (US);
Gary Luce, Spring, TX (US);
John A. Spencer, Cypress, TX (US);
Rae L. Spencer, Cypress, TX (US);
The Texas A&M University System, College Station, TX (US);
Terrabon Mix-Alco, LLC, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of producing alcohols, hydrocarbons, or both from biomass by converting biomass into a carboxylic acid, reacting the carboxylic acid with an olefin to produce an ester and hydrogenolyzing the ester to produce alcohol. A method of producing hydrocarbons from biomass by converting at least a portion of the biomass into a carboxylic acid, a ketone, or an ammonium carboxylate salt, reacting at least one of a portion of the carboxylic acid, a portion of the ketone, or a portion of the ammonium carboxylate salt in an oligomerization reactor as at least part of a process that produces an oligomerization product and separating hydrocarbons from the oligomerization product.