US Patent Issued to Renewable Energy Group on Oct. 28 for "Method for manufacture of a biomass-based diesel from feedstock including olefin oligomers" (Iowa, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,650, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Renewable Energy Group Inc. (Ames, Iowa).

"Method for manufacture of a biomass-based diesel from feedstock including olefin oligomers" was invented by Ramin Abhari (Bixby, Okla.) and Martin Haverly (Ames, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to biofuels, and more particularly, to biomass-based diesel from olefin oligomers. Diesel fuels with cetane number of 49 or greater are prepared by blending hydrocarbons produced by olefin oligomerization with renewable diesel, resulting in a blended fuel that has a lower cloud point than the cloud point of the renewable diesel...