US Patent Issued to UT-BATTELLE on April 14 for "Method of ethanol conversion to higher carbon compounds" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,690, issued on April 14, was assigned to UT-BATTELLE LLC (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

"Method of ethanol conversion to higher carbon compounds" was invented by Aditya Savara (Oak Ridge, Tenn.), Bo Chen (Oak Ridge, Tenn.) and Michelle K. Kidder (Oak Ridge, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of ethanol conversion to higher carbon compounds is provided. The method includes feeding a reactant to a reactor, the reactant including ethanol. The reactant may further include water in the form of steam. The reactant is introduced to a perovskite catalyst in the reactor. The perovskite catalyst promotes the formation of the higher carbon com...