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Title: Method for producing bio-fuel that integrates heat from carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions to drive biomass gasification reactions

Patent ·
OSTI ID:1040881

A low-temperature catalytic process for converting biomass (preferably glycerol recovered from the fabrication of bio-diesel) to synthesis gas (i.e., H.sub.2/CO gas mixture) in an endothermic gasification reaction is described. The synthesis gas is used in exothermic carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions, such as Fischer-Tropsch, methanol, or dimethylether syntheses. The heat from the exothermic carbon-carbon bond-forming reaction is integrated with the endothermic gasification reaction, thus providing an energy-efficient route for producing fuels and chemicals from renewable biomass resources.

Research Organization:
Virent, Inc. (Madison, WI)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
FG02-84ER13183
Assignee:
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, WI); Virent, Inc. (Madison, WI)
Patent Number(s):
8,153,698
Application Number:
12/962,747
OSTI ID:
1040881
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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