Patent ID: 8163041

Claim:
A method for producing a duckweed biosynthetic fuel comprising: a. separating duckweed from its aqueous growth media and macerating the duckweed to form a pulverized duckweed feedstock with cellular fragments, which adsorb OH radical gases and liquids from fermented sugars, b. mixing the duckweed feedstock together with a 15% to 25% parts by weight radicalized sugar solution reagent with OH gases and liquids in solution made from: 1. a given volume of sugar feedstock containing (x) moles of sugars and cellulose composition with 2. a dilute volume of hydrogen peroxide containing (y) moles of hydrogen peroxide; the ratio of moles of sugars to moles of hydrogen peroxide (x/y) selected to provide the desired combustion properties of a resultant fuel additive; 3. an iron 2 catalyst which initially turns green in the presence of the hydrogen peroxide solution, 4. sufficient volume of diluted sulfuric acid to turn the green iron 2 catalyst solution to a yellow/brown iron 3 solution at a pH of approximately 5.5; and 5. mixing the sugar feedstock with the yellow/brown iron 3 solution and holding the yellow/brown iron 3 solution for 48 hours or more in the dark at a pH of between 5 and 6.5 until the sugars cross link forming numerous OH, O double bonds, and O-R groups to produce a radicalized sugar solution reagent; c. holding the pulverized duckweed feedstock and radicalized sugar solution reagent under dark anaerobic conditions to ferment and modify available proteins and carbohydrates into volatile fatty acids to produce a fermented duckweed feedstock, d. adding and adsorbing sufficient vegetable, synthetic or petroleum-based oils to the fermented duckweed feedstock to form a duckweed fuel reagent mixture containing 70-80% by weight fermented duckweed feedstock, 15-25% by weight radicalized sugar solution reagent, and 5-30% by weight oil, and e. holding and fermenting the duckweed fuel reagent mixture in the dark under anaerobic conditions until a duckweed bio-synthetic fuel is produced, and f. flame testing various bio-synthetic fuel mixtures and adjusting the oil to radicalized sugar solution ratio until a bio-synthetic fuel mixture with the desired flame characteristics are achieved for co-firing with 50% to 95% by weight pulverized solid or fluid carbon fuel sources.