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US 2024/0060006 A1Published application
Tuning sulfonation and controlling oleo-furan surfactant compositions
AssigneeSironix Renewables, Inc.
InventorsShawn Eady, Tyler Robison, Michelle Cruz, Trenton Wilke, Sabrina Conrad, Maryam Ansari, Christoph Krumm
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are methods for sulfonation of oleo-furan compounds derived from a furan moiety and either an individual fatty acid or a mixture of fatty acids representative of those yielded from one or more plant oils. Additionally, this disclosure describes tuning sulfonation conditions to produce oleo-furan sulfonate blends which can demonstrate beneficial surfactant characteristics and improvements in various applications.
Claims20
A compound having the formula (1)
- wherein M is a cation selected from the group consisting of:
- NH4+, Li+, Ca2+, Na+, and Mg2+,
- wherein R and X are selected from the group consisting of:
- H, CH3, other alkyl substituents, and SO3−,
- wherein y is selected from the group consisting of 1 and 2, and non-integer values between 1 and 2,
- wherein z is selected from the group consisting of 1 and 2, and non-integer values between 1 and 2, and
- wherein n is an alkyl chain from 4 to 28 carbon atoms in length.
4 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.