US Patent Issued to UT-Battelle on April 14 for "Direct catalytic conversion of alcohols to olefins of higher carbon number with reduced ethylene production" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,897, issued on April 14, was assigned to UT-Battelle LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Direct catalytic conversion of alcohols to olefins of higher carbon number with reduced ethylene production" was invented by Zhenglong Li (Shandong, China), Brian H. Davison (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Junyan Zhang (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalyst composition for converting an alcohol to olefins, the catalyst composition comprising the following components: (a) a support (e.g., particles) comprising silicon and oxygen; (b) at least one of copper and silver residing on and/or incorporated into said support; and (c) at least one lanthan...