US Patent Issued to UOP, China Petroleum & Chemical on Nov. 11 for "Catalysts for isobutanol synthesis from syngas and ethanol or propanol" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,778, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to UOP LLC (Des Plaines, Ill.) and China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Beijing).

"Catalysts for isobutanol synthesis from syngas and ethanol or propanol" was invented by Richard Long (Katy, Texas) and Tian Ruan (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for the production of propanol and/or isobutanol is disclosed. The process comprises reacting ethanol or propanol with synthesis gas in the presence of an alkali or alkaline earth doped CuMn oxide catalyst under reaction conditions to produce propanol and/or isobutanol. The catalyst may include one or more additional metal oxides as cataly...