IP Library Granted Patent US 8,734,543
Granted Patent B2
US 8,734,543 · App. 12/431,217 · Granted May 27, 2014

Oxygenated gasoline composition having good driveability performance

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Patent No.
US 8,734,543
App. No.
12/431,217
Granted
May 27, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for producing a gasoline blend having a high concentration of a butanol isomer and having good cold start and warm-up driveability performance.

Claims (11)

1. A method for producing a gasoline blend having good cold start and warm-up driveability performance comprising

blending at least one butanol isomer, one or more hydrocarbon blend stocks, and optionally one or more additives, to form a gasoline blend;

determining the volatility of a volume fraction of the gasoline blend at temperatures up to about 200° F. (E200) by a distillation test; and

adjusting the volume percent of the at least one butanol isomer, the concentrations of the one or more hydrocarbon blend stocks, or a combination thereof to provide a gasoline blend having an E200 of at least 35 volume percent.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the concentration of the at least one butanol isomer is at least 40 volume percent of the of the gasoline blend.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one butanol isomer comprises isobutanol.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the volume fraction of the gasoline blend that evaporates at temperatures up to about 200° F. (E200) is at least 40 volume percent of the gasoline blend.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the volume fraction of the gasoline blend that evaporates at temperatures up to about 200° F. (E200) is at least 45 volume percent of the gasoline blend.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the volume fraction of the gasoline blend that evaporates at temperatures up to about 200° F. (E200) is at least 50 volume percent of the gasoline blend.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the concentration of the at least one butanol isomer is at least 30 volume percent of the of the gasoline blend.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the one or more additives is selected from detergents, antioxidants, stability enhancers, demulsifiers, corrosion inhibitors, and metal deactivators.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 30, 2021
From: BUTAMAX ADVANCED BIOFUELS LLC
To: GEVO, INC.
Reel/Frame 057677/0477 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 7, 2009
From: BAUSTIAN, JAMES J
To: BP CORPORATION NORTH AMERICA INC.
Reel/Frame 022652/0979 →