Chevron U.s.a. Inc.

Brian Crawford Adams

Sven Ivar Hommeltoft

Jinyi Han

Horacio Trevino

Guan Dao Lei

Methods and systems for converting a renewable fuel intermediate composition to finished transportation fuel are provided herein. In some examples, a renewable fuel intermediate composition is flowed over a first catalyst in a first reaction zone to generate a saturated, hydrodeoxygenated product. A liquid portion of the renewable fuel intermediate composition may be characterized as having more than about 70 wt % of the oxygen being within ketone groups. The saturated, hydrodeoxygenated product may be flowed over a second fixed-bed catalyst in a second reaction zone to generate a product including the finished transportation fuel.

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Oakland, CA, United States of America

Brian Crawford Adams