A process for preparing normal paraffins involves separating a Fischer-Tropsch product stream to obtain first gaseous and liquid hydrocarbon streams. The first gaseous hydrocarbon stream is cooled and separated to obtain a second liquid hydrocarbon stream and a third liquid hydrocarbon stream, which are hydrogenated. The hydrogenated liquid hydrocarbon stream is separated by distillation to obtain a hydrogenated normal paraffin fraction comprising 5 to 9 carbon atoms, a hydrogenated normal paraffin fraction comprising 10 to 13 carbon atoms, a hydrogenated normal paraffin fraction comprising 14 to 18 carbon atoms, and a hydrogenated normal paraffin fraction comprising 19 to 35 carbon atoms.

Hydropyrolysis processes are described, in which differing types of feedstocks, including at least one biorenewable feedstock, namely a biomass-containing feedstock, may be co-processed to allow enhancements in operating conditions and/or product properties, depending on changing customer requirements and/or overall market demands. According to specific embodiments, an aliphatic hydrocarbon precursor or an aromatic hydrocarbon precursor is co-processed with the biomass-containing feedstock to enhance an operating condition (e.g., a reactor temperature profile) of the hydropyrolysis process and/or a property (e.g., cetane number) of a liquid product (e.g., a diesel boiling range fraction) obtained from a substantially fully deoxygenated hydrocarbon liquid.

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of chemical engineering, and specifically discloses a method for removing oxygenated compounds from a Fischer-Tropsch oil having a high carbon number. A reaction-extraction combined process is used in this method for removing oxygenated compounds from a Fischer-Tropsch oil having a high carbon number, wherein the Fischer-Tropsch oil (C5-C20) is firstly subjected to alkaline washing with an alkaline aqueous solution to convert acidic substances into water-soluble salts. The Fischer-Tropsch oil is subjected to a primary extraction with a carbonate-based extractant to remove alcohols and esters therein, and subsequently subjected to a secondary extraction with propylene carbonate to remove ketones and aldehydes impurities therein, thereby removing oxygenated compounds in the Fischer-Tropsch oil. After extraction, the content of the oxygenated compounds in the Fischer-Tropsch oil may be down to 1-60 ppm, and the yield of oil product may be kept 90% or more.

Described herein are processes for hydroisomerising an unconventional feedstock using a hydroisomerisation catalyst comprising zeolite SSZ-91, zeolite SSZ-32, or zeolite SSZ-32x to provide a diesel fuel.

A method for producing a motor fuel includes telomerizing ethylene and an alcohol mixture comprising ethanol under suitable conditions to form a mixture comprising C.sub.5-C.sub.8 alcohols; dehydrating the mixture comprising the C.sub.5-C.sub.8 alcohols to form a mixture comprising C.sub.5-C.sub.8 olefins; oligomerizing the C.sub.5-C.sub.8 olefins to form C.sub.10-C.sub.24 olefins; hydrogenating the C.sub.10-C.sub.24 olefins to form C.sub.10-C.sub.24 paraffins; and isolating a fraction of the C.sub.10-C.sub.24 paraffins. The isolated fraction may be used to form a motor fuel selected from gasoline, kerosene, diesel, and mixtures thereof.

An apparatus for producing diesel fuel and jet fuel using Fischer-Tropsch synthetic oil, the apparatus including a hydrofining reactor, a hot separator, a first rectifying column, a hydrocracking reactor, a hydroisomerization reactor, a second rectifying column, a first mixing chamber and a second mixing chamber. The hydrofining reactor includes a raw material inlet and a hydrofining product outlet. The hot separator includes a separated oil outlet and a hydrofining product inlet which is connected to the hydrofining product outlet. The first rectifying column includes a tail oil fraction outlet, a diesel fraction outlet and a separated oil inlet which is connected to the separated oil outlet. The first mixing chamber includes a circulating hydrogen inlet, a first mixture outlet and a tail oil fraction inlet which is connected to the tail oil fraction outlet.

The present invention provides a process for upgrading a Fischer-Tropsch product by hydrocracking in the presence of a hydrocracking catalyst in a reactor, wherein the process is initiated by a series of steps (i) to (iv). The hydrocracking catalyst is (i) contacted with a hydrogen-containing stream having a feed temperature of from 360 C. to 420 C.; (ii) the feed temperature of the hydrogen-containing stream is reduced to a temperature of from 220 C. to 280 C.; (iii) the catalyst is contacted with a Fischer-Tropsch product stream having a feed temperature of from 220 C. to 280 C., which is co-fed with the hydrogen-containing stream; and (iv) the catalyst is co-fed with a Fischer-Tropsch product stream and hydrogen-containing stream having feed temperatures of from 380 C. and 400 C. for at least four days and wherein the hydrocracking catalyst is not activated by sulfiding.

The disclosed invention relates to a method for restarting a synthesis gas conversion process which has stopped. The synthesis gas conversion process may be conducted in a conventional reactor or a microchannel reactor. The synthesis gas conversion process may comprise a process for converting synthesis gas to methane, methanol or dimethyl ether. The synthesis gas conversion process may be a Fischer-Tropsch process.

A unique process and catalyst is described that operates efficiently for the direct production of a high cetane diesel type fuel or diesel type blending stock from stochiometric mixtures of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. This invention allows for, but is not limited to, the economical and efficient production high quality diesel type fuels from small or distributed fuel production plants that have an annual production capacity of less than 10,000 barrels of product per day, by eliminating traditional wax upgrading processes. This catalytic process is ideal for distributed diesel fuel production plants such as gas to liquids production and other applications that require optimized economics based on supporting distributed feedstock resources.

The invention provides a process for the production of aviation turbine fuel. The process includes the steps of oligomerizing light olefins derived from a high temperature Fisher-Tropsch process over a zeolite catalyst selected from a ZSM-5 (Zeolyst Int., SiO2/A12O330)(COD-9) at pressures of 50 bar with the temperature ranging from 150 to 310 C., distilling from a gasoline fraction of the oligomerisation product, a fraction boiling below 150 C., hydrogenating the distilled oligomerisation fraction over a hydrogenation catalyst, distilling from the hydrogenated hydrocarbon product, fractionating the hydrogenation distillate fraction over a fractionation catalyst and distilling the fractionation hydrocarbon product to produce an aviation turbine fuel (ASH1925) able to meet the requirements as set out for a Synthetic ISO-Paraffinic Kerosene (SPK) as per ASTM D 7566-14a.