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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2013
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (US);
Navinchandra S. Asthana, Evansville, IN (US);
Dennis J. Miller, Okemos, MI (US);
Carl T. Lira, East Lansing, MI (US);
Evan Bittner, Duluth, MN (US);
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (US);
Abstract
A process for producing mixed esters of fatty acids as biofuel or additive to a petroleum fuel for use in a compression ignition (CI) engine. The process preferably provides a partial transesterification of a mixture of fatty acid methyl esters with at least one alkyl alcohol containing 2 to 8 carbon atoms in the presence of a heterogeneous solid acid catalyst to produce a mixture of the fatty acid methyl esters and alkyl alcohol esters of the fatty acids.