Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Processes and systems for catalytic manufacture of wax ester derivatives
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Application No.: US16560175Application Date: 2019-09-04
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Publication No.: US11767543B2Publication Date: 2023-09-26
- Inventor: Jeff Addy , James H. Brown
- Applicant: International Flora Technologies, Ltd.
- Applicant Address: US AZ Chandler
- Assignee: Cargill, Incorporated
- Current Assignee: Cargill, Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US MN Wayzata
- Agency: IPTechLaw
- The original application number of the division: US14841242 2015.08.31
- Main IPC: C12P7/6436
- IPC: C12P7/6436 ; C11C3/00

Abstract:
Processes for transesterifying wax esters. Implementations may include providing a feedstock including wax esters, introducing into the feedstock an alcohol with a carbon number ranging from 1 to 34 carbons where the alcohol is selected from the group consisting of a straight chain alcohol, a branched chain alcohol, any combination of straight chain alcohols, any combination of branched chain alcohols, and any combination thereof. The process may include contacting the feedstock with a lipase, and catalytically transesterifying the wax esters in the feedstock with the lipase to form a transesterified product. The enzymatically transesterified product may be adapted to produce a finished product having a certain formula that has a viscosity that substantially matches a viscosity of a finished product having the same certain formula including chemically catalyzed transesterified wax esters.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200002736A1 Processes and Systems for Catalytic Manufacture of Wax Ester Derivatives Public/Granted day:2020-01-02
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