A process for making diesel and turbine fuels including, providing an effective amount of branched olefins, adding active heterogeneous acid catalyst(s) to said branched olefins to produce a solvent-free mixture, heating said solvent-free mixture greater than about 100Â° C. for a desired amount of time depending on various conditions, to produce C 16 dimers/catalyst mixture, removing said catalysts from said dimers/catalyst mixture, and adding hydrogenation catalyst(s) to said dimers under hydrogen atmosphere to produce a mixture of stable fuels.

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›1.independentA process for making diesel/jet fuels, comprising:nproviding an effective amount of 2-ethyl-1-hexene;adding active heterogeneous acid catalyst(s) to s…+7

›9.independentA process for making diesel/fuels, comprising:nproviding an effective amount of branched olefins including 2-ethyl-1-hexene;adding active heterogeneou…+2

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Section C — Chemistry; metallurgy

C07C5/03
C07C2/14

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585/255585/526585/510585/520585/515585/254

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related publication	US 20120209036 A1	16 Aug 2012

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