Alternative paths to alcohols and hydrocarbons from biomass
AssigneesTerrabon, Inc., The Texas A&M University System
InventorsMichael Kyle Ross, Gary Luce, John Spencer, Rae Spencer, Mark T. Holtzapple, Cesar B. Granda, Sebastian Taco-Vasquez
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Abstract
A method of producing hydrocarbons from biomass that includes converting at least a portion of the biomass into a first product having at least one of a carboxylic acid, a ketone, an ammonium carboxylate salt, and combinations thereof; converting at least a portion of the first product into an alcohol; reacting at least some of the alcohol in an oligomerization reactor as part of a process that produces an oligomerization product.
Claims20
A method of producing hydrocarbons from biomass, the method comprising:
- converting at least a portion of the biomass into a first product comprising at least one of a carboxylic acid, a ketone, an ammonium carboxylate salt, and combinations thereof;
- converting at least a portion of the first product into an alcohol;
- reacting at least some of the alcohol in an oligomerization reactor as part of a process that produces an oligomerization product;
- and
- separating hydrocarbons from the oligomerization product.
A method of producing hydrocarbons from biomass, the method comprising:
- converting at least a portion of the biomass into a first product comprising one of a carboxylic acid, a ketone, an ammonium carboxylate salt, and combinations thereof;
- converting at least a portion of the first product into an alcohol;
- reacting at least some of the alcohol in an oligomerization reactor to produce a second product comprising hydrocarbons;
- and
- separating hydrocarbons from the second product.
A method of producing hydrocarbons from biomass, the method comprising:
- converting biomass into a product stream comprising at least one of a carboxylic acid component, a carboxylate salt component, and combinations thereof;
- reacting the product stream to produce an alcohol product;
- and
- reacting at least some of the alcohol product in an oligomerization reactor as part of a process that produces an hydrocarbon oligomerization product.
The method of claim 16, wherein reacting the product stream is carried out in the oligomerization reactor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.