Patent ID: 7067448

Claim:
A process for the manufacture of a reaction product comprising one or more n-alkanes from an initial product comprising one or more mineral oil fractions comprising 80 to 95% by weight aromatic compounds and 1 to 20% by weight olefin compounds or pyrolysis gasoline, said process comprising: converting one or more cyclic hydrocarbons with a zeolite catalyst having a spaciousness index SI≦20 and a modified constraint index CI*>1, where the one or more cyclic hydrocarbons include hydrocarbons produced by hydrogenation of the one or more mineral oil fractions, wherein during the converting the H 2 pressure is 5 to 200 bar, the temperature is 150 to 550° C., the concentration (WHSV) is 0.1 to 20 h −1 , and the one or more cyclic hydrocarbons are converted to n-alkanes.