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Granted Patent B2
US 9,657,244 · App. 14/259,611 · Granted May 23, 2017

Oxygenated gasoline composition having good driveability performance

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Patent No.
US 9,657,244
App. No.
14/259,611
Granted
May 23, 2017
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 (5)

1. A gasoline blend consisting essentially of:

25 volume percent of a gasoline blend stock of one or more hydrocarbons;

25 volume percent of light cat naphtha; and

50 volume percent of at least one butanol isomer, wherein a volume fraction of the gasoline blend that evaporates at temperatures up to about two-hundred degrees Fahrenheit (200° F.) is at least thirty-five volume percent (35%) of the gasoline blend.

2. The gasoline blend of claim 1 , wherein the butanol isomer comprises isobutanol.

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 Feb 27, 2015
From: BAUSTIAN, JAMES J.
To: BUTAMAX ADVANCED BIOFUELS LLC
Reel/Frame 035050/0506 →