| abstract |
Disclosed is a catalytic cracking process for cracking oil from a non-vascular photosynthetic organism comprising, extracting oil from said non-vascular photosynthetic organism to form a feedstock comprising at least one of a sesquiterpene, a diterpene, a triterpene and a tetraterpene; and contacting said feedstock with a catalytic composition comprising a large pore molecular sieve, wherein the large pore molecular sieve is a 12-ring zeolite. Further disclosed is oil when produced by said process. |