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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2015
Terravia Holdings, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott Franklin, Woodside, CA (US);
Aravind Somanchi, Redwood City, CA (US);
Karen Espina, San Francisco, CA (US);
George Rudenko, Mountain View, CA (US);
Penelope Chua, San Francisco, CA (US);
TerraVia Holdings, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are methods of manufacturing renewable chemicals through the manufacture of novel triglyceride oils followed by chemical modification of the oils. Methods such as transesterification, hydrogenation, hydrocracking, deoxygenation, isomerization, interesterification, hydroxylation, hydrolysis and saponification are disclosed. Novel oils containing fatty acid chain lengths of C8, C10, C12 or C14 are also disclosed and are useful as feedstocks in the methods of the invention.