Process for converting one or more C3—C12 oxygenates

A process for converting one or more C3-C12 oxygenates comprising:

• a. contacting a feed comprising one or more C3-C12 oxygenates with a source of hydrogen in the presence of a sulphided hydrogenation catalyst to produce a partially hydrogenated effluent;
• b. contacting at least part of the partially hydrogenated effluent with a source of hydrogen at a hydrogen partial pressure of at least 0.1 MegaPascal in the presence of a sulphided carbon-carbon coupling catalyst to produce a conversion product;
• c. optionally contacting at least part of the conversion product with a source of hydrogen in the presence of a sulphided hydrotreating catalyst and/or a sulphided hydroisomerization catalyst to produce a hydrotreated and/or hydroisomerized conversion product;
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• d. optionally purifying the, optionally hydrotreated and/or hydroisomerized, conversion product to obtain a final product, comprising a middle distillate boiling product,
• wherein the carbon-carbon coupling catalyst comprises equal to or more than 60 wt % of a zeolite and in the range from at least 0.1 wt % to at most 10 wt % of a hydrogenation metal, based on the total weight of the carbon-carbon coupling catalyst.