US Patent Issued to Chevron U.S.A. on April 22 for "Process for the production of renewable distillate-range hydrocarbons" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,054, issued on April 22, was assigned to Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Process for the production of renewable distillate-range hydrocarbons" was invented by Bong Kyu Chang (Novato, Calif.), Hye-Kyung Cho Timken (Albany, Calif.) and Michelle K. Young (Marvel, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for producing renewable distillate-range hydrocarbons is provided. The process includes dehydrating a renewable C2-C6 alcohol feedstock to produce an olefin, oligomerizing the olefin the presence of a halometallate ionic liquid catalyst to produce an oligomer product and hydrogenating the oligomer product or fractions the...