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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 08, 2015
Ut-battelle, Llc, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Chaitanya K. Narula, Knoxville, TN (US);
Brian H. Davison, Knoxville, TN (US);
UT-BATTELLE, LLC, Oak Ridge, unknown;
Abstract
A method for producing a hydrocarbon blendstock, the method comprising contacting at least one saturated acyclic alcohol having at least three and up to ten carbon atoms with a metal-loaded zeolite catalyst at a temperature of at least 100° C. and up to 550° C., wherein the metal is a positively-charged metal ion, and the metal-loaded zeolite catalyst is catalytically active for converting the alcohol to the hydrocarbon blendstock, wherein the method directly produces a hydrocarbon blendstock having less than 1 vol % ethylene and at least 35 vol % of hydrocarbon compounds containing at least eight carbon atoms.