Chevron U.s.a. Inc.

Guangci Zhou

Stephen Roby

Saleh Ali Elomari

Curt Munson

Rebecca Elizabeth Brafman

A renewable fuel blend and a process for producing a renewable fuel blend are described. The blend includes biologically derived Cto Cnormal paraffins, which are provided to the blend in quantities such that blend does not require a pour point reducing treatment to achieve a low pour point. In embodiments, the normal paraffins are produced in an upgrading process, such as a hydrotreating process.

Low pour point renewable fuel blend

The present invention is generally directed to novel biodiesel fuel compositions having enhanced low-temperature properties. The present invention is additionally directed to methods (i.e., processes) for making such enhanced biodiesel fuels by improving the low-temperature properties of ester-based biodiesel fuels via in situ enhancement and/or additive enhancement.

Enhanced biodiesel fuel having improved low-temperature properties and methods of making same

The present invention is generally directed to novel fuel compositions and to methods (i.e., processes) for enhancing the combustion efficiency and/or other properties of diesel fuels, particularly wherein such diesel fuels are, or comprise, biodiesel, such biodiesel typically having poorer low-temperature properties than traditional (petroleum) diesel. Generally, such fuel compositions are provided by the creation and inclusion of a quantity of one or more epoxy-ester species, such species serving as combustion improvers for the fuel composition of which they are part.

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El Cerrito, CA, United States of America

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