Patent ID: 7915470

Claim:
A method for producing hydrocarbons comprising the steps of: contacting a polyol solution and a redox solution comprising hydrogen iodide (HI) and reduced metal ions under condition to convert a portion of polyols in the polyol solution into their corresponding hydrocarbons and/or iodohydrocarbons and a first portion of the HI into I 2 and to concurrently convert the I 2 into HI and the reduced metal ions into oxidized metal ions to form a crude product, separating the crude product into an organic phase and an aqueous phase, where the organic phase comprises the corresponding hydrocarbons and/or iodohydrocarbons and where the aqueous phase comprises a spent redox solution, fractionating the organic phase into various hydrocarbons products based on their boiling points, and regenerating the spent redox solution under electrochemical conditions sufficient to convert a substantially amount of the oxidized metal ions to new reduced metal ions.