UW Madison, ExxonMobil researchers convert alcohols to diesel-range ethers and olefins
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MAY 18, 2019
The ethers can be used as cetane-improvers in diesel fuel, while the olefins can be hydrogenated and blended with gasoline or oligomerized and hydrogenated to jet-range paraffins. A paper on their work appears in the RSC journal Green Chemistry. The byproducts are comprised of aldehydes and unidentified species. Eagan et al.
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