US Patent Issued to DESMET BELGIUM on May 19 for "Process for producing biodiesel with reduced monoacylglycerol content" (Belgian, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,774, issued on May 19, was assigned to DESMET BELGIUM (Zaventem, Belgium).

"Process for producing biodiesel with reduced monoacylglycerol content" was invented by Marc Kellens (Mechelen-Muizen, Belgium), Wim De Greyt (Sanaai, Belgium), Barbara Sanchez Gonzalez (Zaventem, Belgium) and Dario Altera (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A post-treatment process for crude biodiesel containing residual monoacylglycerol (MAG) and including contacting said crude biodiesel with a concentrated alkaline solution, double counter-current washing each followed by a phase separation and drying. The process is economical in chemica...