The refining process for a new fuel that combines ultra-low-sulfur diesel with natural has been granted a U.S. patent.

Advanced Refining Concepts founders Rudolf Gunnerman and Peter Gunnerman have been granted a patent covering basic components of their clean liquid motor fuel production process called ClearRefining.

The U.S. patent, entitled "Liquid hydrocarbon fuel from methane assisted by spontaneously generated voltage," is the first issued on the ClearRefining process; additional patent applications related to the process are pending.

"The patent establishes the uniqueness of the ClearRefining process and positions ARC, with its GDiesel product, as a leader in the field of new generation alternative fuels," said Gunnerman, director of Advanced Refining Concepts. GDiesel is available today in commercial quantities, he said, and emphasized that it does not require infrastructure changes or government subsidies.

GDiesel also was recently designated by the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection as an alternative fuel in Nevada's Alternative Fueled Vehicles in Fleets program.

During the past four decades, the Gunnermans have introduced numerous patented clean energy technologies to world markets in the areas of pelletized fuels, biomass fuels, emulsified fuels and ultrasonic upgrading of petroleum.

Advanced Refining Concepts, LLC, is a privately held company based in Reno, Nevada, with additional manufacturing and corporate facilities located in Sparks and McCarran, Nevada, and Vienna, Austria.

The company, through its proprietary closed-loop, zero-emission ClearRefining process, refines petroleum with methane derived from natural gas or future waste biogas sources. The ClearRefining process significantly modifies the asymmetric hydrocarbon distribution of traditional fuel sources, producing a more symmetric distribution that heavily favors lower molecular weight hydrocarbon components, according to the company.

The resulting GDiesel, GPetrol and GJet products offer cleaner emissions and more efficient combustion consistent, according to the company, thanks to the unique hydrocarbon distribution resulting from the ClearRefining process. The fuels contain extremely low sulfur and mineral contaminants and are fully compatible with existing fuel storage and dispensing equipment. No modifications are required to vehicles or engines and they are compatible with traditional fuel products.

More info: www.advancedrefiningconcepts.com/