This patent describes a process for the production of high density jet fuel. It comprises: contracting with hydrogen, in a first stage, a feed; separating and removing sulfur or nitrogen, or both sulfur and nitrogen, from the product of the first stage to produce a liquid product; contacting, in a second stage, the liquid product with hydrogen, over a fluorided Group VIII metal-on-alumina
... [Show full abstract] catalyst to hydrogenate the fused two-ring aromatic hydrocarbons or hydrogenated fused two-ring hydrocarbons of the feed to selectively hydrogenate the aromatic or hydroaromatic hydrocarbons to naphthenes; withdrawing from the second stage a volume of product, based on the product of the first stage fed into second stage, above about 95 percent; and separating from the product of the second stage hydrogenation reaction a high density jet fuel.