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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2014
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Bp Corporation North America Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Zachary C. Baer, Glen Mills, PA (US);
Harvey W. Blanch, Palm Springs, CA (US);
Douglas S. Clark, Orinda, CA (US);
Sanil Sreekumar, Midland, MI (US);
F. Dean Toste, Piedmont, CA (US);
Gorkem Gunbas, Ankara, TR;
Konstantinos A. Goulas, Newark, DE (US);
Amit A. Gokhale, El Cerrito, CA (US);
Joseph B. Binder, Haverford, PA (US);
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
BP Corporation North America Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure generally relates to the catalytic conversion of alcohols into hydrocarbon ketones suitable for use as fuels. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to the catalytic conversion of a mixture of isopropanol-butanol-ethanol (IBE) or acetone-butanol-ethanol (ABE), into ketones suitable for use as fuels. The ABE or IBE mixtures may be obtained from the fermentation of biomass or sugars.