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US 10,246,641 B2Granted
Processes for producing hydrocarbon products
AssigneeCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
InventorsThomas Vanhercke, James Robertson Petrie, Anna El Tahchy, Surinder Singh, Qing Liu
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Abstract
The present invention relates to processes for producing industrial products such as hydrocarbon products from non-polar lipids in a vegetative plant part. Preferred industrial products include alkyl esters which may be blended with petroleum based fuels.
Claims21
A process for producing extracted plant lipid, the process comprising the steps of:
- i) extracting lipid from a collection of transgenic vegetative plant parts having a total non-polar lipid content of at least 10% (w/w dry weight);
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- ii) recovering the extracted lipid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.