Patent ID: 8350107

Claim:
A process for manufacturing turbine and/or diesel fuels, comprising: providing an alcohol feedstock; dehydrating said alcohol with at least one solid acid catalyst at temperatures ranging from about 200° C. to about 400° C. to produce an olefin mixture; in a single step, oligomerizing said mixture with at least one bimetallic isomerization/oligomerization catalyst having a metallocene based catalyst in conjunction with an isomerization catalyst that promotes isomerization without affecting said oligomerization, the isomerization catalyst comprises at least one Lewis acid comprising a transition metal with the metal in the +2 to +6 oxidation state selected from the group consisting of Ni, Zn, Pd, Pt, Cr, Fe, Mn, V, Co, and any combination thereof to produce oligomers formed through 1,2-addition; and hydrogenating and distilling said oligomers to produce fully saturated diesel and turbine fuels.