Process for making renewable surfactant intermediates and surfactants from fats and oils and products thereof

1. A method for producing an alkylbenzene and a detergent alcohol from a natural oil and kerosene comprising:

a) providing a first feed stream comprising natural oil;

b) deoxygenating said first feed stream to form a stream comprising bio-paraffins;

c) removing volatile components and gases from said stream comprising bio-paraffins to form a purified bio-paraffin stream;

d) fractionating said purified bio-paraffin stream into three fractions, wherein a first fraction comprises a lower boiling range, a second fraction comprises a middle boiling range, and a third fraction comprises a high boiling range wherein the first, second and third fractions are free from geologically derived carbon;

e) providing a second stream comprising kerosene;

f) hydrotreating said second stream;

g) sieving said hydrotreated second stream to form a stream comprising kerosene-based paraffin;

h) combining said first fraction of purified bio-paraffin with said kerosene-based paraffin;

i) dehydrogenating said combination of said first fraction of purified bio-paraffin and said kerosene-based paraffin to form a stream comprising olefins;

j) alkylating said stream comprising olefins with a third feed stream comprising benzene to form a stream comprising alkylbenzenes;

k) dehydrogenating said second fraction of purified bio-paraffin to form a stream comprising olefins and paraffins;

l) separating said olefins from said paraffins in said stream comprising olefins and paraffins to form an olefin stream;

m) hydroformylating said olefin stream to form a stream comprising detergent alcohols.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein said third fraction of purified bio-paraffin is sulfoxidized to form a stream comprising paraffin sulfonate.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein said purified paraffin stream has greater than about 90% purity, wherein said purified paraffin stream comprises less than about 5% branched paraffins, less than about 3% olefins and cyclic compounds, and less than about 2% alcohols, esters, aldehydes, and fatty acids.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein said purified bio-paraffin stream comprises paraffins ranging in chain length from C10 to C18.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein said second feed stream comprises renewable benzene.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein said natural oil is selected from the group consisting of coconut oil, palm kernel oil, palm oil, and mixtures thereof.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein said alkylbenzenes are sulfonated.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein said detergent alcohols are sulfated.