# US 11,306,265 B2 · Fuel compositions with enhanced cold properties and methods of making the same > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,306,265 B2 - Document ID: US11306265B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/167,219 - Filed: 2021-02-04 - Published: 2021-06-03 - Granted: 2022-04-19 - Earliest claimed: 2017-01-27 - Assignees: Neste Oyj - Applicants: Neste Oyj - Inventors: Markku Kuronen; Ulla Kiiski - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11306265B2 ## CPC - C10L 1/023: {for spark ignition} - C10L 1/026: {for compression ignition} - C10L 1/06: for spark ignition - C10L 1/08: for compression ignition - C10L 2200/0446: Diesel - C10L 2200/0469: Renewables or materials of biological origin - C10L 2270/026: for diesel engines, e.g. automobiles, stationary, marine - Y02E 50/10: Biofuels, e.g. bio-diesel - Y02P 30/20: using bio-feedstock - C10L: FUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NATURAL GAS; SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C10G OR C10K; LIQUIFIED PETROLEUM GAS; USE OF ADDITIVES TO FUELS OR FIRES; FIRE-LIGHTERS - Y02E: REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GAS [GHG] EMISSIONS, RELATED TO ENERGY GENERATION, TRANSMISSION OR DISTRIBUTION - Y02P: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PRODUCTION OR PROCESSING OF GOODS ## Abstract Methods of making a diesel fuel blend having enhanced cold properties; methods of lowering the cloud point of a mineral middle distillate fuel; and diesel fuel blends including a blend of a renewable fuel and a mineral middle distillate fuel. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method of making a diesel fuel blend having enhanced cold properties, the method comprising: selecting a renewable fuel component and a mineral middle distillate fuel component having cloud points that differ by no more than a pre-selected temperature value; and blending the selected renewable fuel component and the selected mineral middle distillate fuel component in a ratio of amounts by volume of from 10:90 to 90:10 to form a diesel fuel blend that comprises 10-25 wt % n-paraffins in a C14-C20 range and an amount of iso-paraffins in a C14-C20 range such that a ratio of a sum of wt % amounts of the iso-paraffins in the C14-C20 range to a sum of wt % amounts of the n-paraffins in the C14-C20 range is less than 2.2 or is from 1.1 to 2.2. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the blending is performed so that the ratio of the sum of wt % amounts of the iso-paraffins in the C14-C20 range to the sum of wt % amounts of the n-paraffins in the C14-C20 range is less than 2.2 and is also greater than or equal to 1.1. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the renewable fuel component is a hydrotreated renewable middle distillate component. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The method of claim 3, wherein the hydrotreated renewable middle distillate component comprises one or more of: a hydrotreated vegetable oil, a hydrotreated animal fat, a hydrotreated fish fat, a hydrotreated fish oil, a hydrotreated algae oil, a hydrotreated microbial oil, a hydrotreated wood, a hydrotreated plant based oil, a hydrotreated recyclable waste, and a hydrotreated recyclable residue. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The method of claim 3, wherein the hydrotreated renewable middle distillate component has an isomerization ratio of at least 50% or at least 60%. ### Claim 6 (depends on 3) The method of claim 3, wherein the hydrotreated renewable middle distillate component has an isomerization ratio of from 50% to 69%. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the selected renewable fuel component and the selected mineral middle distillate fuel component are blended in a ratio of amounts by volume of from 20:80 to 80:20. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the pre-selected temperature value is 1.8° C., 2.3° C., 3.1° C., 3.5° C., 4° C., 5° C., 10.3° C., 10.8° C., 11.6° C., 12.7° C., 13° C., 13.1° C., or 17° C. ### Claim 9 A diesel fuel blend comprising: a renewable fuel component and a mineral middle distillate fuel component in which the renewable fuel component and mineral middle distillate fuel component are present in the diesel fuel blend in a ratio of amounts by volume of from 10:90 to 90:10; and the diesel fuel blend of the renewable fuel component and the mineral middle distillate fuel component having 10-25 wt % n-paraffins in a C14-C20 range and an amount of iso-paraffins in the C14-C20 range, such that a ratio of a sum of wt % amounts of the iso-paraffins in the C14-C20 range to a sum of wt % amounts of the n-paraffins in the C14-C20 range is less than 2.2 or is from 1.1 to 2.2. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The diesel fuel blend of claim 9, wherein the ratio of the sum of wt % amounts of the iso-paraffins in the C14-C20 range to the sum of wt % amounts of the n-paraffins in the C14-C20 range is less than 2.2 and greater than or equal to 1.1. ### Claim 11 (depends on 9) The diesel fuel blend of claim 9, wherein the renewable fuel component is a hydrotreated renewable middle distillate component. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The diesel fuel blend of claim 11, wherein the diesel fuel blend also includes fatty acid methyl esters (FAME). ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The diesel fuel blend of claim 12, wherein a sum volume of the hydrotreated renewable middle distillate component and the mineral middle distillate component in the diesel fuel blend is an amount that is at least 90 vol % and the diesel fuel blend also includes fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) in an amount that is up to 10 vol % of the diesel fuel blend. ### Claim 14 (depends on 12) The diesel fuel blend of claim 12, wherein a sum volume of the hydrotreated renewable middle distillate and the mineral middle distillate component in the diesel fuel blend is an amount that is at least 93 vol % of the diesel fuel blend and the diesel fuel blend also includes fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) in an amount that is up to 7 vol % of the diesel fuel blend. ### Claim 15 (depends on 11) The diesel fuel blend of claim 11, wherein the hydrotreated renewable middle distillate component comprises one or more of: a hydrotreated vegetable oil, a hydrotreated animal fat, a hydrotreated fish fat, a hydrotreated fish oil, a hydrotreated algae oil, a hydrotreated microbial oil, a hydrotreated wood, a hydrotreated plant based oil, a hydrotreated recyclable waste, and a hydrotreated recyclable residue. ### Claim 16 (depends on 9) The diesel fuel blend of claim 9, wherein the renewable fuel component and the mineral middle distillate fuel component are present in the diesel fuel blend in a ratio of amounts by volume of from 20:80 to 80:20. ### Claim 17 (depends on 11) The diesel fuel blend of claim 11, wherein the hydrotreated renewable middle distillate component and the mineral middle distillate fuel component are present in the diesel fuel blend in a ratio of amounts by volume of from 20:80 to 80:20. ### Claim 18 (depends on 11) The diesel fuel blend of claim 11, wherein the diesel fuel blend includes the hydrotreated renewable middle distillate component between 10 vol % and 20 vol % of a volume of the diesel fuel blend. ### Claim 19 (depends on 11) The diesel fuel blend of claim 11, wherein the hydrotreated renewable middle distillate component includes a mixture of paraffinic hydrocarbons. ### Claim 20 A fuel blend comprising: a renewable fuel component and a mineral middle distillate fuel component in which the renewable fuel component and mineral middle distillate fuel component are present in the fuel blend in a ratio of amounts by volume of from 10:90 to 90:10; and the fuel blend of the renewable fuel component and the mineral middle distillate fuel component having 10-25 wt % n-paraffins in a C14-C20 range and an amount of iso-paraffins in the C14-C20 range, such that a ratio of a sum of wt % amounts of the iso-paraffins in the C14-C20 range to a sum of wt % amounts of the n-paraffins in the C14-C20 range is less than 2.2 or is from 1.1 to 2.2.