US Patent Issued to REG Synthetic Fuels on May 13 for "Method of providing a bio-oil to a hydrodeoxygenation reactor" (Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,391, issued on May 13, was assigned to REG Synthetic Fuels LLC (Ames, Iowa).

"Method of providing a bio-oil to a hydrodeoxygenation reactor" was invented by Ramin Abhari (Bixby, Okla.), H. Lynn Tomlinson (Tulsa, Okla.), Nathan Jannasch (Broken Arrow, Okla.), Douglas Beshara (Tulsa, Okla.), Jesse Haney III (Broken Arrow, Okla.) and Cody Tidwell (Tulsa, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed for hydrodeoxygenation of a bio-oil over a catalyst bed in a hydrodeoxygenation reactor, the method including combining a two-phase diluent having a water dew point and a bio-oil at a bio-oil temperature that is from 50deg F. le...