Neste Oil Oyj

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Fortum Oil & Gas Oy

Optatech Oy

Neste Ot

Juha Jakkula

Pekka Aalto

Vesa Niemi

Jouko Nikkonen

Jukka Myllyoja

Ulla Kiiski

Eija Koivusalmi

Outi Piirainen

Seppo Mikkonen

Juha Moilanen

Petri Lindqvist

Juhani Aittamaa

Johan-Fredrik Selin

Veli-Matti Purola

Ville Alopaeus

Isto Eilos

Outi Krause

Matti Koskinen

Harri Jarvelin

Juha Lehtonen

Antti Pyh&auml;lahti

Kari Vahteristo

Janne Jokinen

Jyrki Ignatius

Mauri Sourander

Juha Linnekoski

Kari-Matti Sahala

The invention is directed to a fuel composition for diesel engines. The fuel composition comprises 0.1-99% by weight of a component or a mixture of components produced from biological raw material originating from plants and/or animals and/or fish. The fuel composition comprises 0-20% of components containing oxygen. Both components are mixed with diesel components based on crude oil and/or fractions from Fischer-Tropsch process.

Fuel composition for a diesel engine

The invention relates to a process for producing a new type of high-quality hydrocarbon base oil of biological origin. The process of the invention comprises ketonization, hydrodeoxygenation, and isomerization steps. Fatty acids and/or fatty acid esters based on a biological raw material are preferably used as the feedstock.

Process for producing a hydrocarbon component

The invention relates to a new base stock material. Specifically the invention relates to a saturated hydrocarbon composition and particularly to a composition based on biological raw materials, to be used as a high-quality base oil or to be used as a component in the production of a base oil having a high viscosity index and good low temperature properties. The composition contains saturated hydrocarbons and has a narrow carbon number range.

Base oil

The invention relates to a process for producing a new type of high-quality hydrocarbon base oil of biological origin. The process of the invention comprises ketonisation, hydrodeoxygenation, and isomerization steps. Fatty acids and/or fatty acid esters based on a biological raw material are preferably used as the feedstock.

A feedstock originating from renewable sources is converted to branched and saturated hydrocarbons without heteroatoms in the diesel fuel distillation range by skeletal isomerisation and deoxygenation carried out by hydrodeoxygenation or alternatively by combined decarboxylation and decarbonylation reactions, whereby the consumption of hydrogen is decreased.

Process for the manufacture of hydrocarbons

The invention relates to a process for producing a hydrocarbon component of biological origin. The process comprises at least two steps, the first one of which is a HDO step and the second one is an isomerization step operated using the counter-current flow principle. A biological raw material containing fatty acids and/or fatty acid esters serves as the feed stock.

Process for producing a hydrocarbon component of biological origin

The invention relates to process for dimerizing olefinic hydrocarbon feedstock, to hydrocarbon compositions and to fuel components produced by the process. According to the invention, fresh olefinic hydrocarbon feedstock is fed to a reaction zone of a system including at least one reaction zone and at least one distillation zone. The olefinic hydrocarbon feedstock is contacted with an acidic catalyst in the presence of an oxygenate at conditions in which at least a part of the olefins dimerizes. The effluent from the reaction zone is conducted to the distillation zone where dimerized reaction product is separated from effluent, and at least one flow comprising oxygenate is withdrawn from the side of at least one distillation column. The flow is circulated from distillation zone back to dimerization. The reaction mixture is recovered and optionally hydrogenated to form a parafinic reaction product.

Process for producing a fuel component

Process of producing 2,6-dimethylnaphthalene by dehydrocyclizing

The invention relates to a method of separating solids from a gas flow in a fluidized catalytic process and to a cyclone assembly suited for use in a fluidized catalytic process. According to the invention, the gas flow of the process carrying the suspended solids is passed into a separation assembly, wherein the solids are separated from the gaseous phase under the effect of the centrifugal force, whereby a multiport cyclone is used as the separation assembly, into which the gas flow to be treated is passed via an inlet nozzle having an axially annular cross section. The use of the multiport cyclone, e.g., in an FCC process gives significant advantages in flow dynamics and process engineering over conventional arrangements and generally used single-port cyclones.

Assembly for separating solids from a gaseous phase

The present invention concerns a process for preparing tertiary alkyl ethers. The process comprises the steps of contacting in the presence of a catalyst a feedstock containing saturated hydrocarbons and dienes having 4 to 7 carbon atoms with an excess of hydrogen in relation to the amount of dienes in the feed in order selectively to hydrogenate at least a part of the dienes, feeding the treated hydrocarbon feedstock together with at least a part of the unreacted hydrogen to a catalytic distillation reactor system which includes at least one distillation column, reacting the C.sub.4-7 isoolefines of the feedstock with methanol or ethanol in the presence of a catalyst to form tertiary alkyl ethers, subjecting the reaction mixture to distillation in the distillation column, recovering the alkyl ethers and substantially all of the unreacted hydrocarbons with the bottoms product of the distillation, withdrawing an overhead product of the distillation, which mainly contains an azeotrope of saturated C.sub.4 hydrocarbons and the alkanol, and maintaining the pressure of the distillation column at least essentially constant by adjusting the amount of gaseous distillate containing hydrogen in the column. The selective hydrogenation operation of the present invention reduces the amount of dienes contained in the feed to below 0.5% and also causes isomerization of olefins to increase the amounts of reactive olefins.

Process for preparing tertiary alkyl ethers from an olefinic hydrocarbon

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