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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2019
Filed:
May. 10, 2017
Reg Synthetic Fuels, Llc, Ames, IA (US);
Ramin Abhari, Bixby, OK (US);
David A. Slade, Ames, IA (US);
H. Lynn Tomlinson, Tulsa, OK (US);
Erik Ashby, S. San Francisco, CA (US);
Nate Green, Ames, IA (US);
Caroline Golden, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
REG SYNTHETIC FUELS, LLC, Ames, IA (US);
Abstract
The present technology provides compositions that include at least about 98 weight percent (wt. %) n-paraffins which, among other surprising features, may be suitable for use as a diesel fuel, an aviation fuel, a jet fuel blendstock, a blendstock to reduce the cloud point of a diesel fuel, a fuel for portable heaters, and/or as a charcoal lighter fluid. The composition includes at least 98 wt. % C-Cn-paraffins, where at least 10 wt. % of composition includes n-decane, at least 20 wt. % of the composition includes n-dodecane, and at least 75 wt. % of the composition includes even carbon number paraffins. The composition also includes less than 0.1 wt. % oxygenates and less than 0.1 wt. % aromatics. The composition may be produced by a process that includes hydrotreating a biorenewable feedstock comprising at least one of palm kernel oil, coconut oil, babassu oil, microbial oil, or algal oil.