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US 2009/0156844 A1Published application
Method for producing stabilized biodiesel fuel
OwnerRajiv Manohar Banavali, Shih-Ying Hsu +1inventors
InventorsRajiv Manohar Banavali, Shih-Ying Hsu, Alfred Karl Schultz
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Abstract
A method for production of stabilized fatty acid methyl esters. The method removes unsaturation present in fatty acid methyl esters, or removes unsaturation in triglycerides, which are then transesterified to fatty acid methyl esters.
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A method for production of stabilized fatty acid methyl esters;
- said method comprising either:
- (a) (i) contacting an unsaturated triglyceride with a C1-C4 alcohol and an acidic catalyst to produce a triglyceride ether, and (ii) transesterifying said triglyceride ether with methanol to produce a stabilized fatty acid methyl ester;
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- (b) contacting an unsaturated fatty acid methyl ester with a C1-C4 alcohol and an acidic catalyst to produce a stabilized fatty acid methyl ester.
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