SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FATTY ACID PURIFICATION AND/OR LIPID MANUFACTURE
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FATTY ACID PURIFICATION AND/OR LIPID MANUFACTURE
A method can include oxidizing hydrocarbons (and optionally oxygenates with oxygenation states less than carboxylic acids such as alcohols, aldehydes, etc.), separating the oxygenated hydrocarbons into saponifiable species and nonsaponifiable species, and treating the saponifiable species (e.g., heat treating, hydrogenation, etc. such as to reduce unsaturated bonds to saturated bonds, to convert oxygenates with greater degrees of oxygenation than monocarboxylic acids into monocarboxylic acids, etc.).