TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Components: The metal catalyst is: a transition metal comprising a copper catalyst, a nickel catalyst and/or a zinc catalyst; or a copper chromite based catalyst, a copper oxide zinc oxide based catalyst, a nickel on alumina based catalyst and/or a ruthenium based catalyst. The catalyst used in hydrogenation comprises two or more transition metals, or a mixture of the transition metal catalysts and main group elements.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Process: The alkyl compound is further purified, and is an ester and a ketone that are further hydrogenated. (I) is synthesized from acetic acid that is synthesized from methanol. (I) ketene is passed over a hot surface before hydrogenation to promote higher alcohol synthesis, subjected to compression before hydrogenation to promote formation of higher alcohol products and passed through a container with volume to increase its residence time and then hydrogenated to form higher alcohols. The synthesized fuel is blended with a hydrocarbon mixture derived from a petroleum source, blended with a biofuel and blended with ethanol derived from a fermentation process. EXAMPLE - 600 ml of Acetone was placed in a 1 l round bottom flask provided with a heating mantle on a magnetic stirrer and a ketene lamp fitted on the neck of the flask. A hydrogenation reactor contained reduced copper zinc oxide catalyst. The acetone was refluxed and ketene filament was heated to begin ketene gas generation. Ketene was vented to an exhaust for 10 minutes to ensure a steady rate and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GCMS) samples were taken of the gas indicating that the ketene was formed along with byproduct methane and some uncondensed acetone vapor. Hydrogen gas was passed through the heated hydrogenation reactor at 200 ml/minute at -205 degrees C. A manual vacuum pump was attached to an outlet of the hydrogenation reactor gas and the three way ball valve was turned to allow ketene gas into the hydrogenation reactor as a very low pressure was applied. ketene flowed at a rate of 0-300 ml/minute. GCMS samples indicated that all ketene was reduced and ethanol and 2-butanol were the major products along with other higher alcohols, ketones and ethyl acetate. Acetone and isopropanol were observed in the samples resulting from acetone evaporation and feed from the acetone in the ketene lamp. After 1 hour, 3.5 g of liquid product was collected from the liquid condenser cooled in an ice salt water bath. Quantitative gas chromatography analysis of the sample showed 22% of ethanol and 7.7% of 2-butanol as major products along with acetone/isopropanol a major portion of the rest of the liquid volume.