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US 2025/0059463 A1Published application
System and method for triglyceride manufacture
AssigneeSavor Foods Limited
InventorsKathleen Alexander, Ian Salmon McKay, Nikifar Lazouski, Evan Roberts, Trevor Seidel
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Abstract
A method can include receiving an oxygenate sample, fractioning the oxygenate sample into one or more fractions, and separating the fractions (e.g. using FAME fractionation, FAEE fractionation, crystallization, solvent extraction, or other similar methods). The fractions can optionally be separated independently. The method can optionally include esterifying carboxylic acids separated from the fractions with glycerol and deodorizing the glycerides.
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A method for forming a triglyceride sample comprising:
- oxidizing hydrocarbons consisting essentially of straight chain hydrocarbons to form oxygenates;
- thermally treating the oxygenates at a temperature between 300° C. and 380° C. to dehydrate hydroxyacids to unsaturated fatty acids;
- hydrogenating the unsaturated fatty acids to form saturated fatty acids;
- fractioning the oxygenates into a plurality of narrow chain distributions of oxygenates, wherein carboxylic acids of each narrow chain distribution of oxygenates comprise at least 90% by mass of a unique pair of carboxylic acids;
- for each of the plurality of narrow chain distributions of oxygenates, separating carboxylic acids from other oxygenate species using fatty acid methyl ester fractionation to form a respective narrow chain distribution of fatty acids;
- forming the triglyceride sample by esterifying two or more of the narrow chain distributions of fatty acids together, wherein a hydroxyl number of the triglyceride sample is less than about 20;
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- deodorizing the triglyceride sample.
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A method for forming a triglyceride sample comprising:
- a) fractioning an oxygenate sample into a first narrow oxygenate distribution and a second narrow oxygenate distribution;
- b) separating carboxylic acids in the first narrow oxygenate distribution from other oxygenates;
- c) independent of b) separating carboxylic acids in the second narrow oxygenate distribution from other oxygenates;
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- d) esterifying the carboxylic acids from b) and c) with glycerol to form the triglyceride sample.
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