Neste Oyj

Neste Oy

Neste Oil Oyj

Fortum Oyj

Fortum Oil & Gas Oy

Marina Lindblad

Mats Käldström

Kaisa Lamminpää

Jukka Myllyoja

Sami Toppinen

Maaria Seläntaus

Elias Ikonen

Jouni Touronen

Pekka Aalto

Ulla Kiiski

Ville Paasikallio

Antti Pasanen

Meri Hovi

Salla Likander

Kari Jansson

Jukka-Pekka Pasanen

Blanka Toukoniitty

Veli-Matti Purola

Marja Tiitta

Rami Piilola

Pirjo Siira

Andrea Perez Nebreda

Kaija Isokoski

Suvi P Haukka

Pekka Knuuttila

Hilkka R Knuuttila

Kati Sandberg

Jukka Hietala

Outi Krause

Harri Hokkanen

Tuomo Suntola

Vesa Niemi

Eeva-Liisa Lakomaa

Johan Gronqvist

Antti Pyhälahti

Anna Karvo

Johan Grönqvist

Eveliina Mäkelä

Emma Sairanen

Lars Peter Lindfors

Jarno Kohonen

Susanna Wallenius

G&ouml;ran Sandstr&ouml;m

Aimo Rautiainen

Reetta Karinen

Riikka Puurunen

José Luis González Escobedo

Arla Kyt&ouml;kivi

José Luis GONZÁLES Escobedo

Salla Jaatinen

Antti Pyhalahti

Maaria Selantaus

Jose Luis Gonzales Escobedo

Eveliina Makela

Mats Kaldstrom

A process for hydrotreating recycled or renewable feedstocks with a catalytic microparticle slurry, and a process for manufacturing the catalytic microparticle slurry, are disclosed.

Catalytic hydrotreating of feedstocks

A process for selective removal of hydroxyl groups from phenolic compounds is disclosed. The process uses a combination of catalytic hydrodeoxygenation and catalytic direct deoxygenation to convert alkylphenols into alkylbenzenes.

Selective hydroxyl group removal from alkylphenols

A method is disclosed of purifying a recycled or renewable organic material, wherein the recycled or renewable organic material contains one or more impurities selected from a group consisting of silicon compounds, phosphorous, Cl and sterols. Exemplary embodiments include (a) providing the recycled or renewable organic material; (c) heat treating the recycled or renewable organic material at 100 to 450° C.; and (f) hydrotreating the heat treated recycled or renewable organic material in a presence of a hydrotreating catalyst; to obtain purified hydrotreated recycled or renewable organic material.

Purification of recycled and renewable organic material

A method is disclosed of purifying a recycled or renewable organic material, wherein the recycled or renewable organic material includes more than 1 ppm silicon as silicon compounds. Exemplary steps include (a) providing the recycled or renewable organic material; (b) heat treating the recycled or renewable organic material to form a heat treated recycled or renewable organic material, wherein the at least part of silicon compounds present in the recycled or renewable organic material are converted to volatile silicon compounds, and (c) evaporating volatile silicon compounds from the heat treated recycled or renewable organic material to obtain recycled or renewable organic material fraction containing less silicon than the recycled or renewable organic material provided in step (a).

A method is disclosed of producing hydrocarbons from a recycled or renewable organic material, wherein the recycled or renewable organic material contains from 5 to 30 wt-% oxygen as organic oxy-gen compounds and from 1 to 1000 ppm phosphorous as phosphorous compounds. Exemplary methods include (a) providing the recycled or renewable organic material (c) thermally cracking the recycled or renewable organic material thereby reducing the oxygen and phosphorous content of the recycled or renewable organic material to obtain (i) a vapor fraction containing a major part of volatiles, and (ii) a thermally cracked recycled or renewable organic material fraction containing less oxygen and less phosphorous than the recycled or renewable organic material provided in step (a); and (f) hydrotreating the thermally cracked recycled or renewable organic material fraction in a presence of a hydrotreating catalyst; to obtain hydrocarbons containing less than 1 wt % oxygen and less phosphorous than the recycled or re-newable organic material provided in step (a).

Production of hydrocarbons from recycled or renewable organic material

A method is disclosed of purifying a recycled or renewable organic material, wherein the recycled or renewable organic material includes more than 1 ppm silicon as silicon compounds and/or more than 10 ppm phosphorous as phosphorous compounds. The method can include providing a feed of the lipid material; heat treating the organic material in presence of an adsorbent and the filtering organic material and hydrotreating the lipid material in a presence of a hydrotreating catalyst to obtain purified hydrotreated organic material having less than 20% organic material and/or less than 30% of the original phosphorous content of the organic material.

A method is disclosed of purifying a recycled or renewable organic material, wherein the recycled or renewable organic material contains more than 20 ppm Cl. Exemplary methods include (a) providing the recycled or renewable organic material; (b) purifying the organic recycled or renewable organic material to obtain a purified recycled or renewable organic material, and (c) hydrotreating the purified recycled or renewable organic material in a presence of a hydrotreating catalyst at a temperature from 270 to 380&#xb0; C. under pressure from 4 to 20 MPa and under continuous hydrogen flow; to obtain purified hydrotreated recycled or renewable organic material.

A method for conversion of levulinic acid and to a hydrocarbon composition obtainable by the method. The method includes a step of providing a feedstock, a conversion step of subjecting the feedstock to a C&#x2014;C coupling reaction and a hydrotreatment, and a hydrodeoxygenation step. The content of levulinic acid dimer derivatives having 4 oxygen atoms subjected to the hydrodeoxygenation step is 20 wt.-% or more.

Renewable hydrocarbons, method for producing the same and use thereof

The present invention relates to a method for production of a fuel composition, more specifically a middle distillate fuel composition, and a composition&#x2014;in particular a co feed composition comprising a furanyl containing oligomerisation composition admixed with one or more material component comprising fatty acids or fatty acid derivatives and the use of such composition.

Production of a fuel composition

A process is disclosed for selectively producing 2-butanol from GVL by using at least one transition metal catalyst selected from the group consisting of iron, ruthenium, cobalt, rhodium and iridium.

Process for producing 2-butanol from gammavalerolactone

The present invention relates to a light fuel composition comprising fossil fuel, ethanol, and a bio-hydrocarbon composition as a DVPE adjustment material.

Renewable DVPE adjustment material, fuel blend containing the same, and method for producing a fuel blend

The present invention provides a fuel comprising a renewable middle distillate composition obtainable by hydrodeoxygenation of a feedstock comprising levulinic acid dimers/oligomers and fractionated distillation. The renewable middle distillate composition contains less than 10.0 wt.-% aromatics.

Method for producing renewable middle-distillate composition, use of the composition and fuel containing the same

Catalytic conversion of ketoacids is disclosed, including methods for increasing the molecular weight of ketoacids. An exemlary method includes providing in a reactor a feedstock having at least one ketoacid. The feedstock is then subjected to one or more C&#x2014;C-coupling reaction(s) in the presence of a catalyst system having a first metal oxide and a second metal oxide.

Method for catalytic conversion of ketoacids and hydrotreament to hydrocarbons

Provided are fuel components, a method for producing fuel components, use of the fuel components and fuel containing the fuel components based on 5-nonanone.

Upgrading 5-nonanone

Methods and uses of a good lubricity fraction obtainable from thermal treatment of levulinic acid and subsequent hydrogenation and fractionation are disclosed.

Renewable diesel fuel composition

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Helsinki, Finland

Marina Lindblad