LOW EMISSIONS F-T FUEL/CRACKED STOCK BLENDS

• Main Authors: WITTENBRINK, ROBERT JAY, COOK, BRUCE RANDALL, BERLOWITZ, PAUL JOSEPH
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 09.02.2010
• Subjects: ADDING MATERIALS TO FUELS OR FIRES TO REDUCE SMOKE ORUNDESIRABLE DEPOSITS OR TO FACILITATE SOOT REMOVAL; CHEMISTRY; CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS; FIRELIGHTERS; FUELS; FUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; LUBRICANTS; METALLURGY; MINERAL WAXES; NATURAL GAS; PEAT; PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVEHYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION; RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, ORGASES; REFINING MIXTURES MAINLY CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBONS; REFORMING OF NAPHTHA; SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES C10G, C10K; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE

A blend useful as a diesel fuel, as well as a method for its production, comprising a high quality Fischer-Tropsch derived distillate boiling in the range of a diesel fuel blended with a cracked stock boiling m the range of a diesel fuel wherein the final blend contains 10-35 wt. % aromatics and 1-20 wt. % polyaromatics and produces low regulated emissions levels.