US Patent Issued to NEXT-ChemX on Oct. 21 for "Membrane-based treatment of biodiesel compositions to remove impurities" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,576, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NEXT-ChemX Corp. (Austin, Texas).

"Membrane-based treatment of biodiesel compositions to remove impurities" was invented by Nikolai M Kocherginsky (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Treatment of a biodiesel composition to remove impurities such as glycerol from the biodiesel composition using a membrane support. The biodiesel composition flows on one side of the membrane support and an acidic washing solution flows on the opposite side of the membrane support. Glycerol and other low molecular weight impurities having an affinity towards water are transported from the biodiesel composi...