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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2009
Applicants:
Martin Ming Yang Chang, Taipei, CN;
Jyh-cherng Shieh, Taipei, TW;
Sheng-meng Wang, New Taipei, TW;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A process for converting a dilute ethanol solution to liquid hydrocarbon fuels such as LPG and gasoline by preferentially driving-off the ethanol molecules in the solution across the liquid-air interface and streaming same into a heating and catalytic reacting system maintained at the conversion conditions. The concentration of the dilute ethanol solutions are in the range of from 5% to 15% ethanol and the reacting system comprises a zeolite type of catalyst such as ZSM-5.