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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2010
Benjamin G. Harvey, Ridgecrest, CA (US);
Roxanne L. Quintana, Ridgecrest, CA (US);
Michael E. Wright, Ridgecrest, CA (US);
Benjamin G. Harvey, Ridgecrest, CA (US);
Roxanne L. Quintana, Ridgecrest, CA (US);
Michael E. Wright, Ridgecrest, CA (US);
The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A process for making diesel and turbine fuels including, providing an effective amount of branched olefins, adding active heterogeneous acid catalyst(s) to said branched olefins to produce a solvent-free mixture, heating said solvent-free mixture greater than about 100° C. for a desired amount of time depending on various conditions, to produce Cdimers/catalyst mixture, removing said catalysts from said dimers/catalyst mixture, and adding hydrogenation catalyst(s) to said dimers under hydrogen atmosphere to produce a mixture of stable fuels.