PROCESS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF HIGH LUBRICITY LOW SULFUR DISTILLATE FUELS

摘要

A process for producing distillate fuels, such as diesel fuels and jet fuels , having both high lubricity and low sulfur levels. Such fuels are produced by fractionating a distillate feedstream (10) into a light fraction (12) which is relatively low in lubricity and which contains from about 50 to 100 wpm of sulfur and a heavy fraction (14) having a relatively high lubricity. The first fraction (12) is hydrotreated to remove substantially all of the sulfur (16) and is then blended with the second fraction (14) to produce a distillate fuel product (18) having relatively low sulfur levels and a relatively high lubricity.