US Patent Issued to FUZHOU UNIVERSITY on July 14 for "Method for pretreating waste fat, oil and grease and co-producing first-generation biodiesel" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,040, issued on July 14, was assigned to FUZHOU UNIVERSITY (Fuzhou, China).

"Method for pretreating waste fat, oil and grease and co-producing first-generation biodiesel" was invented by Lilong Jiang (Fuzhou, China), Kuan Huang (Fuzhou, China), Zhenping Cai (Fuzhou, China), Yanning Cao (Fuzhou, China) and Yongde Ma (Fuzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for pretreating waste fat, oil and grease (FOG) and co-producing a first-generation biodiesel, including: S1, feeding waste FOG, a liquid acid catalyst, and methanol into a pre-esterification reactor, and conducting pre-esterification to obtain a pre-esterif...