Synthesis of Liquid Fuels and Chemicals From Oxygenated Hydrocarbons

A gasoline composition, wherein the gasoline composition is derived by a method comprising:

• providing water and a biomass-derived water soluble oxygenated hydrocarbon comprising a C1+O1+ hydrocarbon in an aqueous liquid phase and/or a vapor phase,
• catalytically reacting in the liquid and/or vapor phase the oxygenated hydrocarbon with hydrogen in the presence of a deoxygenation catalyst comprising a support and a member selected from the group consisting of Re, Cu, Fe, Ru, Pt, Pd, Ni, W, Mo, Ag, Sn, an alloy thereof, and a combination thereof, at a deoxygenation temperature in the range of about 100° C. to 400° C., and a deoxygenation pressure of between 72 psig and 1300 psig, to provide a reaction stream comprising water and two or more oxygenates having two or more carbon atoms and one or two oxygen atoms, and
• catalytically reacting the oxygenates in the vapor phase in the presence of an acid catalyst comprising a member selected from the group consisting of an aluminosilicate, zirconia, tungstated aluminosilicate, tungstated zirconia, tungstated alumina, tungstated titania, a heteropolyacid, an acid modified resin, and a combination thereof, at a condensation temperature and condensation pressure to produce the C4+ compound, wherein the C4+ compound comprises a member selected from the group consisting of C4+ alcohol, C4+ ketone, C4+ alkane, C4+ alkene, C5+ cycloalkane, C5+ cycloalkene, aryl, fused aryl, and a mixture thereof, and
• distilling the product stream to provide a gasoline composition having a boiling point of less than 150° C.