Paraffin compositions including mainly even carbon number paraffins, and a method for manufacturing the same, is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the method involves contacting naturally occurring fatty acid/glycerides with hydrogen in a slurry bubble column reactor containing bimetallic catalysts with equivalent particle diameters from about 10 to about 400 micron. The even carbon number compositions are particularly useful as phase change material.

Methods for cracking a polyolefin are provided which comprise heating a blend comprising a polyolefin and an unsupported acidic polyoxometalate in a reaction zone of a reactor chamber, the reaction zone at a reaction temperature, while flowing a gas through the blend, to induce carbon-carbon bond cleavage in the polyolefin and form a processed blend comprising cracked hydrocarbons; passing at least a portion of the processed blend to a reflux zone of the reactor chamber, the reflux zone at a reflux temperature; and collecting the cracked hydrocarbons.

Paraffin compositions including mainly even carbon number paraffins, and a method for manufacturing the same, is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the method involves contacting naturally occurring fatty acid/glycerides with hydrogen in a slurry bubble column reactor containing bimetallic catalysts with equivalent particle diameters from about 10 to about 400 micron. The even carbon number compositions are particularly useful as phase change material.