Methods of making alkyl esters

Elliott, Brian

Methods of making alkyl esters

Patent · Tue Aug 03 00:00:00 EDT 2010

OSTI ID:1015772

Elliott, Brian ^[1]

Wheat Ridge, CO

A method comprising contacting an alcohol, a feed comprising one or more glycerides and equal to or greater than 2 wt % of one or more free fatty acids, and a solid acid catalyst, a nanostructured polymer catalyst, or a sulfated zirconia catalyst in one or more reactors, and recovering from the one or more reactors an effluent comprising equal to or greater than about 75 wt % alkyl ester and equal to or less than about 5 wt % glyceride.

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Research Organization:: TDA Research, Inc., Wheat Ridge, CO (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: FG02-04ER86197

Assignee:: TDA Research, Inc. (Wheat Ridge, CO)

Patent Number(s):: 7,767,837

Application Number:: 11/744,693

OSTI ID:: 1015772

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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