Processes and Systems for Catalytic Manufacture of Wax Ester Derivatives

摘要

Processes for transesterifying wax esters. Implementations may include providing a feedstock including wax esters, introducing into the feedstock an alcohol with a carbon number ranging from 1 to 34 carbons where the alcohol is selected from the group consisting of a straight chain alcohol, a branched chain alcohol, any combination of straight chain alcohols, any combination of branched chain alcohols, and any combination thereof. The process may include contacting the feedstock with a lipase, and catalytically transesterifying the wax esters in the feedstock with the lipase to form a transesterified product. The enzymatically transesterified product may be adapted to produce a finished product having a certain formula that has a viscosity that substantially matches a viscosity of a finished product having the same certain formula including chemically catalyzed transesterified wax esters.

主权项

1. A process for modifying the viscosity of a finished product including catalytically transesterified wax esters, the process comprising:
providing a feedstock comprising wax esters; introducing into the feedstock an alcohol with a carbon number ranging from 1 to 34 carbons, the alcohol selected from the group consisting of a straight chain alcohol, a branched chain alcohol, any combination of straight chain alcohols, any combination of branched chain alcohols, and any combination thereof; contacting the feedstock with a lipase; catalytically transesterifying the wax esters in the feedstock with the lipase to form a transesterified product; increasing a viscosity of a finished product comprising catalytically transesterified wax esters by including the transesterified product as an ingredient of the finished product.