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 synthesis of liquid transportation fuels from abundant, bio-derived feedstocks is motivated by the drive toward lower GHG fuels. —Eagan et al.
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