Production of fuels, particularly jet and diesel fuels, and constituents thereof

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A first aspect of the invention is concerned with fuels and particularly jet and diesel fuels which comprise blends of substituted mono cyclohexane material and two ring non-fused cycloalkane material. The first material may be npropylcyclohexane or n-butylcyclohexane. The second material may be nuclear substituted bicyclohexyl and may include cyclohexylbenzene. A second aspect of the invention concerns producing constituents for the fuel from heavy aromatic materials by breaking down the heavy aromatics to naphthas separating light naphthas and other constituents of the fuel before reforming a heavy naphtha fraction to provide a BTX fraction which may be treated by hydroalkylation or …