Abstract:
A PROCESS FOR RECOVERING HYDROGEN FROM HYDROGEN CONTAINING GASES, ESPECIALLY REFINERY GASES CONTAINING HYDROGEN AT A CONCENTRATION GREATER THAN 20 VOLUME PERCENT, BY INTRODUCING A HYDROGEN EXTRACTING AROMATIC HYDROCARBON INTO A HYDROGENATION CATALYST ZONE AT A POINT INTERMEDIATE IN SAID CATALYST ZONE, IN THE PRESENCE OF A HYDROGEN CONTAINING GAS IN COUNTERCURRENT RELATIONSHIP TO SAID AROMATIC HYDROCARBON, REMOVING A HYDROGENATED AROMATIC HYDROCARBON EFFIUENT FROM THE CATALYST ZONE, INTRODUCING SAID EFFLUENT INTO A DEHYDROGENATION CATALYST ZONE AT A POINT INTERMEDIATE IN SAID CATALYST ZONE IN THE PRESENCE OF AN ENRICHED HYDROGEN CONTAINING GAS IN COUNTERCURRENT RELATIONSHIP TO SAID EFFLUENT AND RECOVERING A HYDROGEN CONTAINING GAS OF AT LEAST ABOUT 90 VOLUME PERCENT HYDROGEN.
Abstract:
THE INTRODUCTION OF A DEWAXING AID INTO WAXY CRUDES
FOLLOWED BY PREHEATING OF THE CRUDE AND THE ADDITIVE PRIOR TO DEWAXING INCREASES THE AMOUNT OF HEAVIER WAX REJECT STREAM AND THE FUEL OIL (OR 650*F. FRACTION) RECOVERED FROM THE DEWAXED CRUDE BY FRACTIONATION HAS A REDUCED POUR POINT. THE REDUCTION IN POUR POINTS RANGES FROM 10* TO 35*F.
Abstract:
A CATALYTIC HYDROGEN CONTACT PROCESS FOR THE HYDROSULFURIZATION OF HEAVY HYDROCARBON MATERIALS BY INTRODUCING A HEAVY HYDROCARBON MATERIAL INTO A CATALYST ZONE COMPRISING A FIRST CATALYST ZONE BELOW AND A SECOND CATALYST ZONE ABOVE THE POINT OF ENTRY OF THE HEAVY HYDROCARBON MATERIAL, IN MTHE PRESENCE OF HYDROGEN WHEREIN THE HYDROGEN IS INTRODUCED IN COUNTERCURRENT RELATIONSHIP TO SAID HEAVY HYDROCARBON MATERIAL AND MAINTAINED AT A RATE SUFFICIENT TO PROVIDE FOR LIQUID CONTACT OF THE SECOND CATALYST ZONE AND RECOVERING AN INCREASED PROPORTION OF LOWER BOILING HYDROCARBONS AND/OR HYDROCARBONS OF REREDUCED SULFUR CONTENT.
Abstract:
A DESULFURIZATION PROCESS FOR THE REMOVAL OF SULFUR IN A SULFUR CONTAINING HYDROCARBON OIL BY CONTACTING THE SULFUR CONTAINING HYDROCARBON OIL WITH AN ORGANIC HYDROPEROXIDE, AN ORGANIC PEROXIDE OR AN ORGANIC PERACID OXIDANT IN THE PRESENCE OF A GROUP IV-B, GROUP V-B OR FOR EXAMPLE BASE TREATMENT, A THERMAL TREATMENT OR A HYDRODESULFURIZATION TREATMENT.
Abstract:
The octane number of paraffinic gasoline blending components may be increased by (1) cyclizing the n-paraffins with hydrogen under reforming conditions in the presence of a catalyst prepared by depositing a noble metal on magnesium oxide and mixing the resulting noble metal-magnesia into an alumina gel matrix, and (2) subjecting the cyclized component to conventional catalytic reforming.
Abstract:
A two-stage hydrocracking process for the conversion of heavy hydrocarbon fractions containing at least 50 p.p.m. nitrogen into lighter products using in both stages a catalyst containing a hydrogenating component supported on a mixture of a modified crystalline zeolite and at least one amorphous inorganic oxide.
Abstract:
A HYDROCRACKING PROCESS FOR INCREASING THE YIELD OF LOWER BOILING HYDROCARBONS FROM HEAVY HYDROCARBON FRACTIONS BY OXIDIZING THE HEAVY HYDROCARBON AND CONTACTING SAID, OXIDIZED HEAVY HYDROCARBON FRACTION WITH HYDROGEN IN THE PRESENCE OF AN AROMATIC POLYCARBOXYLIC ACID OR ANHYDRIDE PRODUCING COMPOUND.
Abstract:
A COKE SUPPRESSING ADDITIVE PREPARED BY CONTACTING AN OXIDIZED HEAVY HYDROCARBON FRACTION WITH AN AROMATIC POLYCARBOXYLIC ACID AND/OR ANHYDRIDE PRODUCING COMPOUND IN THE PRESENCE OF AN OXIDANT FOLLOWED BY TREATMENT WITH HYDROGEN. THE ADDITIVE IS PARTICULARLY USEFUL FOR SUPPRESSING COKE FURMATION IN A HYDROCRACKING PROCESS.