Patent ID: 8304592

Claim:
A process for producing a hydrocarbon product comprising paraffins from at least a first and a second portion of renewable feedstock said process comprising; treating the first portion of renewable feedstock in a first reaction zone by hydrogenating and deoxygenating the first portion of feedstock at reaction conditions to provide a first effluent comprising paraffins; passing at least a portion of the first effluent to a second reaction zone and treating the second portion of renewable feedstock in the second reaction zone by hydrogenating and deoxygenating the second portion of renewable feedstock at reaction conditions to provide a second effluent comprising paraffins; and recycling a recycle stream comprising a portion of at least one of the reaction zone effluents to the first reaction zone wherein the volume ratio of recycle stream to first portion of renewable feedstock is in the range of about 2:1 to about 8:1 wherein the first portion or the second portion of the feedstock comprises at least one component selected from the group consisting of canola oil, corn oil, soy oil, rapeseed oil, soybean oil, colza oil, tall oil, sunflower oil, hempseed oil, olive oil, linseed oil, coconut oil, jatropha oil, castor oil, peanut oil, palm oil, mustard oil, cottonseed oil, tallow, greases, lard, train oil, fats in milk, fish oil, algal oil, sewage sludge, pyrolysis oil, oxygenated liquids derived from the gasification of coal, oxygenated liquids derived from depolymerization, synthetic oils, and mixtures thereof.