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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2011
Applicants:
Maoqi Feng, San Antonio, TX (US);
Chee-kai Tan, San Antonio, TX (US);
Inventors:
Maoqi Feng, San Antonio, TX (US);
Chee-Kai Tan, San Antonio, TX (US);
Assignee:
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C11C 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for the continuous production of ester based organic compounds from renewable natural products via supercritical solvent processing in the presence of heterogeneous nano-structured catalysts. Fatty acid triglycerides may therefore be transesterified using heterogeneous nano-structured catalysts in the presence of supercritical alcohols to provide alkyl ester compounds and glycerine.