Disclosed is a process for producing a jet fuel, comprising a step of converting an alcohol stream in a fluidized bed, a jet fuel and a plant associated with said process. The process involves the following steps: (a) converting a C1 to C6 alcohol stream to produce a mixture containing paraffins, olefins, aromatics, and water; (b) separating water from the mixture; (c) oligomerizing olefins; and (d) alkylating aromatics from the mixture; (e) forming a stream of hydrocarbons to be hydrogenated; (f) hydrogenating the stream of hydrocarbons to be hydrogenated; (g) recovering at least one jet fuel fraction from the hydrogenated hydrocarbon stream.

Conversion step (a) is carried out in a reaction zone comprising at least one fluidized catalytic bed.

In the mixture of paraffins, olefins, aromatics and water produced in conversion step (a), the ratio of the mass of C3+ olefins to the total mass of olefins is greater than or equal to 0.8.

Disclosed are methods for upgrading heavy aromatic waste streams, including polystyrene and other related materials, to chemical feedstocks. Process embodiments include feeding heavy aromatic waste streams to: a) hydrogenation followed by steam cracking followed by separation; and b) separation followed by: i) hydrogenation, and ii) hydrogenation followed by steam cracking followed by and separation. Each embodiment leads to production of ethylene, propylene, ethylbenzene, ethylbenzene precursors, or a combination thereof.

The process comprises the steps of: (a) converting a C1 to C6 alcohol stream to produce a mixture containing paraffins, olefins, aromatics, and water; (b) separating water from the mixture; (c) oligomerizing olefins from the water-depleted mixture; (d) alkylating aromatics from the water-depleted mixture; (e) forming a stream of hydrocarbons to be hydrogenated from the olefins oligomerized in step (c) and the aromatics alkylated in step (d); (f) hydrogenating the stream of hydrocarbons to be hydrogenated; (g) recovering a jet fuel fraction from the stream of hydrogenated hydrocarbons; wherein, in the mixture produced in conversion step (a), the ratio of the mass of C3+ olefins to the total mass of olefins is greater than or equal to 0.8.

Processes for the production of petroleum products from crude oil are disclosed. A process can include subjecting a vacuum resid stream, in a resid processing unit, to conditions suitable to produce pitch and hydrocarbons having a boiling temperature less than 450 C. Subjecting the pitch to conditions, in a pitch processing unit, to produce gaseous hydrocarbons, naphtha, distillate, and coke is also disclosed. The gaseous hydrocarbons, naphtha, distillate, and/or coke can be converted to other products such as ethylene, propylene, MTBE, and/or alkylates.