NOVELTY - Producing higher hydrocarbons and glycols from bio-based feedstock containing carbohydrate involves: (i) providing feedstock stream containing carbohydrates and water; (ii) contacting feedstock with catalyst to form first intermediate stream of oxygenated intermediates having glycols (at least 5 wt.%) and other monooxygenates; (iii) contacting first portion of first intermediate; (iv) providing hydrogen; (v) processing second intermediate stream; (vi) providing second portion of first intermediate stream; (vii) separating stream; and (viii) recovering glycols.    USE - For co-producing higher hydrocarbons and glycols from bio-based feedstocks containing carbohydrates (claimed); or for production of higher hydrocarbons used in transportation fuels and industrial chemicals from bio-based feedstocks.    ADVANTAGE - The method is an efficient process which can produce a portion of glycols from carbohydrates without excessive heavy ends or light alkanes byproduct formation, and after separation of a glycol-rich stream, continue the processing for efficient conversion of a monooxygenates-rich stream to liquid fuels, to obtain high yields of glycols and liquid fuels, with minimal formation of heavy ends, tars, and light alkane (less than C5) gaseous byproducts. The method converts bio-based feedstocks, optionally without any additional costly purification steps to form higher energy density product of lower oxygen/carbon ratio including higher alkanes, olefins, and aromatics; and the glycol coproducts are readily produced as intermediates and easily separated by flash distillation from the primarily mono-oxygenate intermediates used to produce liquid biofuels by condensation or oligomerization reactions.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - Producing higher hydrocarbons and glycols from bio-based feedstock containing carbohydrate involves: (i) providing a bio-based feedstock stream containing carbohydrates and water; (ii) contacting, in a first reaction system, the bio-based feedstock stream with an aqueous phase reforming catalyst at a temperature of 120-280 degrees C and 0.1-150 bar of hydrogen to form a first intermediate stream containing several oxygenated intermediates comprising at least 5 wt.%, based on the total oxygenates content, of glycols that comprises ethylene glycol (EG) and 1,2-propylene glycol (PG), and other monooxygenates; (iii) contacting, in a second reaction system, at least a first portion of the first intermediate stream in the presence of a aqueous phase reforming catalyst at a temperature of 160-280 degrees C to produce a second intermediate stream containing several oxygenated intermediates stream and hydrogen; (iv) providing at least a portion of the hydrogen to the first reaction system; (v) processing at least a portion of the second intermediate stream to form a liquid fuel; (vi) providing a second portion of the first intermediate stream to a first separation system; (vii) separating a portion of the first intermediate stream, in the first separation system, to a monooxygenates stream comprising monooxygenates and a glycol rich stream comprising at least 10 wt.%, based on the total oxygenates, of glycols by flashing; and (viii) recovering glycols from the glycol rich stream. An INDEPENDENT CLAIM is included for a producing (M2) glycols involving: (i) providing a bio-based feedstock stream containing carbohydrates and water; (ii) contacting, in a first reaction zone, the bio-based feedstock stream with an aqueous phase reforming catalyst at a temperature of 120-280 degrees C and 0.1-150 bar of hydrogen to produce a first intermediate stream containing several oxygenated intermediates comprising at least 5 wt.%, based on the total oxygenates content, of glycols that comprises ethylene glycol (EG) and 1,2-propylene glycol (PG), and other monooxygenates; (iii) contacting, in a second reaction zone, at least a first portion of the first intermediate stream in the presence of a aqueous phase reforming catalyst at a temperature of 160-280 degrees C to produce a combined glycol and oxygenated intermediate stream comprising greater than 5 wt.% glycols, based on the total oxygenates and hydrocarbons; (iv) separating, by flashing, the combined glycol and oxygenated intermediate stream into a glycol rich stream comprising at least 10 wt.%, based on the total oxygenates, of glycols, and a mono-oxygenates-rich stream; (v) processing at least a portion of the monooxygenates-rich stream to form a liquid fuel; (vi) recovering glycols from the glycol rich stream.