Patent ID: 8895794

Claim:
A process for producing high quality gasoline blending components and distillate products, comprising: a) feeding a C 3 to C 6 olefin and a C 4 to C 6 isoparaffin to an alkylation reactor; b) operating the alkylation reactor in an alkylate mode by controlling a level of a conjunct polymer in an alkylation catalyst in the alkylation reactor; wherein a gasoline blending component is made having a RON of 90 or higher; wherein during the alkylate mode the alkylation reactor produces greater than 80 wt % of a C5+ hydrocarbon stream that boils at 280° F. or below and essentially all of the C5+ hydrocarbon stream is a gasoline boiling range material; and c) operating the alkylation reactor in a distillate mode by increasing the level of the conjunct polymer in the alkylation catalyst; wherein a second gasoline blending component and a distillate product is made, wherein the second gasoline blending component has a second RON of 85 or higher; and wherein during the distillate mode the alkylation reactor produces a distillate C5+ hydrocarbon stream having greater than 50 wt % that boils above 280° F.