US Patent Issued to Gevo on Dec. 2 for "Simultaneous dehydration, dimerization, and metathesis of C2-C5 alcohols" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,207, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Gevo Inc. (Englewood, Colo.).

"Simultaneous dehydration, dimerization, and metathesis of C2-C5 alcohols" was invented by Jonathan Smith (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) and Madeline Sjodin (Englewood, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a single stage process for the direct conversion of alcohols, e.g. ethanol, to olefinic mixtures (C2-C7) with low levels of aromatics carried out in a single reactor with two fixed catalyst beds in series, or two catalytic fixed bed reactors in series wherein the first reactor operates at a lower or higher temperature than the operating tempera...