Patent Application 20120090222 - FUEL MANUFACTURING METHOD > Summary
US Patent Application
Patent Application No. US 20120090222
Published on Apr 19, 2012
Application No. 13/259037
Field on Mar 25, 2009
Inventor/Applicants
Matsumura, Takehiko - Yokohama-city, JP
Hirose, Noritaka - Yokohama-city, JP
Izumi, Takako - Northbridge, AU
Abstract
The objective is to obtain fuel having high combustion calorie and superior handleability from a crude glycerin or a fatty acid mixture that have been discarded as industrial waste products. Disclosed is a fuel comprising a water-insolublized fatty acid substance obtained by water-insolubilizing a fatty acid that is contained in a crude glycerin or fatty acid mixtures that are produced as by-products in the process of producing a biofuel from an animal/plant-derived fat/oil. The water-insolublized fatty acid substance is preferably a water-insoluble fatty acid salt, particularly preferably a salt of a fatty acid with a divalent or trivalent metal ion.
Classification
C10L 1/02
44/307