ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,403, issued on June 24, was assigned to Swedish Biofuels AB (Stockholm).
"Method for producing motor fuel from ethanol" was invented by Igor Goloubkov (Lidingo, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a motor fuel includes telomerizing ethylene and an alcohol mixture comprising ethanol under suitable conditions to form a mixture comprising C5-C8 alcohols; dehydrating the mixture comprising the C5-C8 alcohols to form a mixture comprising C5-C8 olefins; oligomerizing the C5-C8 olefins to form C10-C24 olefins; hydrogenating the C10-C24 olefins to form C10-C24 paraffins; and isolating a fraction of the C10-C24 paraff...