TURBINE AND DIESEL FUELS AND METHODS FOR MAKING THE SAME

摘要

A process for making diesel and turbine fuels includes providing an amount of one or more branched olefins and adding active heterogeneous acid catalyst(s) to the branched olefins to produce a mixture, which can be solvent-free. The process further includes heating the solvent-free mixture to a temperature greater than about 80°C for a sufficient time to produce a dimers/catalyst mixture, removing the catalysts from the dimers/catalyst mixture, and adding hydrogenation catalyst(s) to the dimers under hydrogen atmosphere to produce a mixture of stable fuels.