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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2010
Applicants:
Ivan C. Lee, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Douglas A. Behrens, Newark, DE (US);
Inventors:
Ivan C. Lee, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Douglas A. Behrens, Newark, DE (US);
Assignee:
The United States of America as reprensted by the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C 1/24 (2006.01); C07C 27/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A process to perform selective catalytic oxidation of four-carbon alcohols to produce four-carbon olefins with yields greater than 90%. The process includes providing a supply of oxygen gas and a butanol fuel, atomizing and evaporating the fuel to produce a vapor, mixing the vapor with the oxygen to form a fuel mixture, reacting the fuel mixture in the presence of a heated solid Rh/AlOor AlOcatalysts.