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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2010
Sai Bhavaraju, West Jordan, UT (US);
Mukund Karanjikar, West Valley, UT (US);
Ashok V. Joshi, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
David Joel Hunt, Ogden, UT (US);
Pallavi Chitta, West Valley, UT (US);
Sai Bhavaraju, West Jordan, UT (US);
Mukund Karanjikar, West Valley, UT (US);
Ashok V. Joshi, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
David Joel Hunt, Ogden, UT (US);
Pallavi Chitta, West Valley, UT (US);
Ceramatec, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Abstract
A method that produces coupled radical products from biomass. The method involves obtaining a lipid or carboxylic acid material from the biomass. This material may be a carboxylic acid, an ester of a carboxylic acid, a triglyceride of a carboxylic acid, or a metal salt of a carboxylic acid, or any other fatty acid derivative. This lipid material or carboxylic acid material is converted into an alkali metal salt. The alkali metal salt is then used in an anolyte as part of an electrolytic cell. The electrolytic cell may include an alkali ion conducting membrane (such as a NaSICON membrane). When the cell is operated, the alkali metal salt of the carboxylic acid decarboxylates and forms radicals. Such radicals are then bonded to other radicals, thereby producing a coupled radical product such as a hydrocarbon. The produced hydrocarbon may be, for example, saturated, unsaturated, branched, or unbranched, depending upon the starting material.