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Article: French Inventors Develop Middle Distillates Production Process
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- February 20, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 20 -- Eric Benazzi of Chatou, France, and Christophe Gueret of St. Romain en Gal, France, have developed a middle distillates producing process.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention concerns a process for producing middle distillates from effluents obtained from the Fischer-Tropsch process, comprising separating a heavy cut with an initial boiling point of 120-200 degree Celsius (C), hydrotreating said cut and fractionating the hydrotreated cut to obtain at least one intermediate fraction and at least one fraction that is heavier than the intermediate fraction. The intermediate fraction boils between T1 and T2, T1 being in the range ...