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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2010
Applicant:
Melvin Keith Carter, Lincoln, CA (US);
Inventor:
Melvin Keith Carter, Lincoln, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/18 (2006.01); C12N 15/74 (2006.01); C12P 7/06 (2006.01); C12P 7/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Sugars comprising the monosaccharides glucose and fructose, and the disaccharides sucrose and mannose are catalytically converted to ethanol in a sulfate fortified acid medium in the presence of transition metal compounds possessing a degree of symmetry. This is not a fermentation process but is a catalytic chemical process where conversion efficiency is improved by saturating the acidic reaction mixture with inorganic sulfate salts to reduce competitive reactions. Ethanol formed during the reaction is removed by distillation facilitating a continuous process.