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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2010
Applicants:
Zhen Zhou, Emeryville, CA (US);
Lin LI, Albany, CA (US);
Shabbir Husain, San Pablo, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Chevron U.S.A. Inc., San Ramon, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C07C 1/207 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A process useful for treating biologically derived oils in the production of biofuels is described. A biologically derived oil feed is deoxygenated by contacting the feed with a metal titanate catalyst comprising a metal titanate having an MTiOperovskite structure wherein M is a metal having a valence of 2+. The process does not require the addition of hydrogen.