Patent ID: 8530715

Claim:
A method of producing a hydrocarbon product, the method comprising: hydrotreating a feedstock comprising at least one of a renewable triacylglyceride (TAG), renewable fatty acid, renewable fatty acid C 1 -C 5 alkyl ester (C 1 -C 5 FAE), and a mixture thereof, in the presence of a nonsulfided hydrotreating catalyst, to produce a first product comprising hydrocarbons and optionally to produce unconverted starting material comprising the at least one of the renewable triacylglyceride (TAG), the renewable fatty acid, the renewable fatty acid C 1 -C 5 alkyl ester (C 1 -C 5 FAE), and the mixture thereof, wherein in the first product, a concentration of at least one of hydrocarbons with an odd-number of carbon atoms, cyclic hydrocarbons, and hydrocarbons with an even-number of carbon atoms, is dependent on a temperature used during the hydrotreating; and controlling the temperature of the hydrotreating to be a first temperature such that a weight ratio of the hydrocarbons having an even-number of carbon atoms to the hydrocarbons having an odd-number of carbon atoms is greater than 1:1, and then further comprising increasing the first temperature by an amount of about 8° C. to about 55° C., such that the weight ratio of the hydrocarbons having an even-number of carbon atoms to the hydrocarbons having an odd-number of carbon atoms decreases to less than 1:1; wherein the renewable TAG, renewable fatty acid, and renewable C 1 -C 5 FAE comprise fatty acid units that have an even number of carbon atoms.