In Colorado, Gevo announced that it has been awarded U.S. Patent No. 12,486,207 B2 from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The patent broadens protections for different catalyst combinations and explicitly protects the use of Ethanol-to-Olefins (ETO) technology to produce fuels.
Gevo is developing ETO with partners LG Chem, Ltd. to deploy Gevo’s next-generation ETO process for renewable chemical applications and with Axens, and IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) for fuel applications. The patented process produces light olefins from ethanol and can convert those olefins into transportation fuels using commercially proven Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ) technologies.
Gevo noted that olefins can be used to make cost-effective renewable chemical building blocks such as bio-propylene.
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