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Method for producing renewable middle-distillate composition, use of the composition and fuel containing the same

  • US 10,640,721 B2
  • Filed: 12/28/2016
  • Issued: 05/05/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A fuel comprising:

  • a renewable middle distillate composition which includes a fractionally distilled hydrodeoxygenation product of a hydrodeoxygenated feedstock of dimers/oligomers of levulinic acid and/or dimers/oligomers of derivatives of levulinic acid, wherein the renewable middle distillate composition contains less than 10.0 wt.-% aromatics, as determined in accordance with ASTM D2425,wherein the renewable middle distillate composition contains from 50 wt.-% to 80 wt.-% cycloparaffins having 8 to 15 carbon atoms, wherein 50 wt.-% or more of the cycloparaffins have 8 to 10 carbon atoms,wherein the freezing point of the renewable middle distillate composition is −

    70°

    C. or lower, andwherein the boiling point of the middle distillate composition is in the range of 150°

    C. to 370°

    C.

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