UW Madison, ExxonMobil researchers convert alcohols to diesel-range ethers and olefins
Green Car Congress
MAY 18, 2019
The ethers can be used as cetane-improvers in diesel fuel, while the olefins can be hydrogenated and blended with gasoline or oligomerized and hydrogenated to jet-range paraffins. The numbers depicted are carbon flows based on a process in which Guerbet coupling is performed at 50% conversion and etherification is performed at 65% conversion.
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