Hydroprocessing of fats, oils, and waxes to produce low carbon footprint distillate fuels

A method for making a fuel composition, the method comprising:

• contacting a fatty acid- or triglyceride-containing component and a paraffin-rich component with hydrogen under catalytic hydroprocessing conditions to provide a hydroprocessed biofuel product, wherein the paraffin-rich component is derived from biomass by a combination of gasification and Fischer-Tropsch synthesis;
• fractionating the hydroprocessed biofuel product of the contacting of the fatty acid or triglyceride-containing component and the paraffin-rich component with hydrogen, wherein fractionating comprises feeding a hydrogen-containing stripping gas into a hot high pressure separator to selectively separate the hydroprocessed biofuel product into an overhead portion exiting the hot high pressure separator;
• further fractionating the overhead portion comprising the hydroprocessed biofuel product to recover lower boiling hydrocarbons comprising C4− hydrocarbons and generating, from at least a portion of the C4− hydrocarbons, at least a portion of the hydrogen for contacting with the fatty acid- or triglyceride-containing component and the paraffin-rich component;
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• wherein the hydroprocessed biofuel product comprises a hydroprocessed aviation biofuel comprising less than about 10% of the C16 hydrocarbons entering the separator as an effluent from a hydroprocessing reactor.