US Patent Issued to ENI on Jan. 27 for "Process for pretreating vegetable oils or animal fats intended for processes of transformation into biofuels" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,684, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ENI S.P.A. (Rome).

"Process for pretreating vegetable oils or animal fats intended for processes of transformation into biofuels" was invented by Thomas Pasini (San Donato Milanese, Italy) and Franco Baldiraghi (San Donato Milanese, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for pretreating and purifying crude bio-feedstocks intended for processes of transformation into biofuels is described, the method being characterized in that the crude bio-feedstock is subjected, in the form of an aqueous emulsion to a heat treatment by passing it through a coil visbreaker furnace at a temperature great...