Patent ID: 7572943

Claim:
A process for making a fuel or lubricant component, comprising: a. passing a feed stream comprising one or more olefins to an ionic liquid oligomerization zone, at oligomerization conditions; b. recovering an oligomerized olefinic intermediate from said ionic liquid oligomerization zone; c. passing the oligomerized olefinic intermediate and an isoparaffin to an ionic liquid, alkylation zone comprising an acidic chloroaluminate ionic liquid, that is a methyl-tributyl ammonium chloroaluminate ionic liquid at alkylation conditions; and d. recovering an effluent from the ionic liquid alkylation zone comprising an alkylated oligomeric product; wherein the alkylated oligiomeric product has a TBP@50 (Wt%) of at least 538 degrees C. (1000 degrees F.) by Simulated Distillation.