Patent ID: 8273138

Claim:
A fuel component comprising: a lighter fraction of a carbohydrate derived component having at least one C 4+ compound, the lighter fraction exhibiting: a mean percentage of 99% or more biobased material, as determined by C14 testing; a final boiling point in the range of from 150 to 220 ° C.; a component density at 15° C. in the range of from 700 to 890 kg/m 3 ; a component sulfur content of at most 5 mg/kg; a component RON in the range of from 80 to 110; a component MON in the range of from 70 to 100; a benzene content of at most 10 vol. %; and, 21.7 wt. % or less of one or more carbohydrate derived C 4+ alkenes; the lighter fraction comprising: a combined total of about 18 wt. % or more of one or more of carbohydrate derived aromatics comprising (a) a combination of multi-substituted carbohydrate derived aromatic compounds comprising substituents selected from the group consisting of C 1-4 alkyls and (b) one or more substituted or unsubstituted aromatic selected from the group consisting of fused aryls, indane, indene, isomers thereof, and combinations thereof, wherein substituents on substituted aromatic are selected from the group consisting of straight chain C 1-4 alkyls and combinations thereof; a combined total of about 7.9 wt. % or more of one or more C 5+ alkanes comprising a first quantity of one or more branched carbohydrate derived C 5+ alkanes, and a second quantity of one or more straight chain carbohydrate derived C 5+ alkanes; and a combined total of about 1 wt. % or more of (a) an unsubstituted carbohydrate derived C 5+ cycloalkane, and (b) one or more substituted carbohydrate derived cycloalkane comprising one or more substituent selected from the group consisting of branched C 3-4 alkyls, straight chain C 1-4 alkyls, branched C 3-4 alkylenes, and straight chain C 1-4 alkylenes; wherein the lighter fraction is a product produced by a process comprising: (a) providing water and carbohydrate derived water-soluble oxygenated hydrocarbon comprising C 1+ O 1+ hydrocarbon in an aqueous liquid phase and/or a vapor phase; (b) providing H 2 ; (c) catalytically reacting in the liquid and/or vapor phase the carbohydrate derived water-soluble oxygenated hydrocarbon with the H 2 in the presence of a deoxygenation catalyst at a deoxygenation temperature and deoxygenation pressure to produce carbohydrate derived oxygenate comprising C 1+ O 1-3 hydrocarbon in a reaction stream; and (d) catalytically reacting in the liquid and/or vapor phase the carbohydrate derived oxygenate under condensation conditions comprising the presence of a condensation catalyst and a condensation temperature of 325° C. or higher, the condensation conditions being effective to produce the carbohydrate derived component having at least one C 4+ compound; and, (e) separating the lighter fraction from the carbohydrate derived component.