[Mr. Lucky]

Are btu content and octane ratings comparable to gasoline (or that even better fuel, ethanol)?

[thackney]

My understanding is that it produces essentially the same fuel, not a comparable fuel. Octane and Cetane and other fuel components are produced by a different process in the Coal-to-Liquid but the end results are still gasoline and diesel blending components.

Octane produce by distillation, a catalytic cracker, a coker or a coal-to-liquids unit is still Octane.

Just as we have added new units to modern refineries process to create more lighter stock like gasoline (when compared to simple distillation), coal-to-liquids is another process creating the same products.