Abstract:
A process is disclosed for the conversion of a hydrocarbon oil vacuum distillation residue to one or more atmospheric distillates by a processing sequence comprising vacuum fractionation, catalytic cracking or hydrocracking, atmospheric fractionation, hydrotreating, atmospheric fractionation, and vacuum fractionation with certain recycle of intermediate streams to achieve efficient, economic operation.
Abstract:
A catalyst composition, a method for its preparation and a hydrotreating process using same. The catalyst comprises a rigidly interconnected pack of irregularly shaped particles having an average diameter below 0.15 mm. Among the particles and throughout the pack are access channels comprising interconnected macropores having diameters in the 0.1 to 15 micron range which contribute at least 5 percent of the pore volume. The particles comprise materials selected from the group consisting of at least one refractory oxide component and one hydrogenation component. For each 100 parts of the oxide component the composition contains, in parts by weight, an amount of the hydrogenating component, calculated as metal, in the range from 0.1 to 50 parts.
Abstract:
A process for the production of low sulfur, low nitrogen fuels at low hydrogen consumption by splitting a feed into two components, a high boiling component, suitably a 1050.degree. F.+ fraction, and a low boiling component, suitably a 1050.degree. F.- fraction, and processing the two different components over two different types of catalysts, at different severities. Suitably, on the one hand, the high boiling component is treated over a large pore metal hydrogenation catalyst at severity sufficient to convert at least 30 percent, preferably at least 50 percent of the feed, based on the weight of the feed, to a 1050.degree. F.- product. The 1050.degree. F.- product from the conversion over the large pore metal hydrogenation catalyst is then blended with the low boiling component split from the original feed, and the blended low boiling material is then treated at low severity over a small pore metal hydrogenation catalyst to hydrodesulfurize and hydrodenitrogenate said low boiling components. The product of the hydrodesulfurization, hydrodenitrogenation reaction constitutes a suitable feed for hydrocracking, or for use as a catalytic cracker feed.
Abstract:
This invention is concerned with a hydrocarbon hydrocracking process using a catalyst prepared by:A. forming an intimate mixture of a gelatinous silica-alumina precipitate and an organic-metal compound obtained by interaction of a transition series metal compound with an organic gravimetric reagent therefore; andB. converting said mixture to said catalyst by at least a step of heating the mixture at a temperature in the range of 500.degree. to 1800.degree. F for a period in the range 1 to 48 hours, said catalyst being porous and having a surface area in the range 50 to 700 m.sup.2 /g.
Abstract:
A process for upgrading a hydrocarbon fraction and for generating hydrogen in situ by contacting the hydrocarbon fraction with a dense-water-containing fluid at a temperature in the range of from about 600.degree. to about 900.degree.F. in the absence of externally supplied hydrogen and of pretreatment of the hydrocarbon fraction and in the presence of a catalyst system containing a sulfur- and nitrogen-resistant catalyst.
Abstract:
A process for hydrotreating (hydroprocessing) hydrocarbons and mixtures of hydrocarbons utilizing a catalytic composite of a porous carrier material, a Group VI-B metal and a Group VIII metal in which process there is effected a chemical consumption of hydrogen. A specific example of one such catalyst is a composite of alumina, a molybdenum component and a cobalt component for utilization in a hydrodesulfurization process. Other hydrocarbon hydroprocesses are directed toward the hydrogenation of aromatic nuclei, the ring-opening of cyclic hydrocarbons, hydrocracking, denitrification, hydrogenation, etc.
Abstract:
Heavy hydrocarbon feedstocks, such as atmospheric and vacuum residua, heavy crude oils and the like, are converted to predominantly liquid hydrocarbon products by contacting said feedstocks in the presence of hydrogen with a regenerable alkali metal carbonate molten medium containing a glass-forming oxide, such as boron oxide, at a temperature in the range of from above about the melting point of said molten medium to about 1000.degree.F. and at elevated pressures. Preferably, the regenerable molten medium comprises an oxide of boron in combination with a mixture of sodium and lithium carbonate or a mixture of sodium carbonate, potassium carbonate and lithium carbonate. The carbonaceous materials (coke) which are formed in the molten medium during the above-described conversion process are gasified by contacting said carbonaceous materials with a gaseous stream containing oxygen, steam, or carbon dioxide at temperatures of from above about the melting point of said medium to about 2000.degree.F. in order to gasify said carbonaceous materials and thereby regenerate the molten medium. The conversion of a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock by the above-described process reduces the viscosity of the feedstock and thereby produces increased proportions of predominantly liquid hydrocarbon products of the motor fuel range, fuel oils and lubricant basestocks.
Abstract:
ASPHALTENE- AND ASH-CONTAINING HYDROCARBONACEOUS CHARGE STOCKS ARE CONVERTED INTO LOWER-BOILING, SUBSTANTIALLY DESULFURIZED HYDROCARBON PRODUCTS VIA A COMBINATION PROCESS INVOLVING DEASHING, HYDROGENATIVE CONVERSION OF ASPHALTENES IN A SLURRY-TYPE SYSTEM AND DESULFURIZATION EMPLOYING A FIXED-BED CATALYTIC COMPOSITE. THE PROCESS
AFFORDS MAXIMUM YIELD OF NORMALLY LIQUID HYDROCARBON PRODUCTS, COUPLED WITH SUBSTANTIAL DESULFURIZATION THEREOF.
Abstract:
LUBRICATING OIL HYDROCRACKING PROCESS UTILIZING CATALYSTS COMPRISING (A) ONE METAL A CONSISTING OF NICKEL AND AT LEAST ONE METAL B SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF MOLYBDENUM AND TUNGSTEN PRESENT ON A CARRIER IN AMOUNTS OF A LEAST ABOUT 0.01 GRAM-ATOM OF METAL A AND AT LEAST ABOUT 0.10 GRAM-ATOM OF METAL B PER 100 GRAMS OF CARIER; (B) AN ATOMIC RATION OF METAL A TO METAL B IN THE RANGE OF FROM ABOUT 0.10:1 TO ABOUT 0.75:1, AND (C) A CARRIER COMPOSED OF SILICA AND ZIRCONIA.
Abstract:
A TWO-STAGE HYDROCRACKING PROCESS EMPLOYING RECYCLE OF HIGH BOILING, SECOND STAGE PRODUCT TO SECOND STAGE FEED AND A SECOND STAGE CATALYST CONTAINING AN IRON GROUP HYDROGENATIVE METAL SUPPORTED ON AN AMORPHOUS SILICAALUMINA-FLUORINE ACID-ACTING BASE ISIMPROVED TO AVOID FORMATION OF POLYAROMATIC COMPOUNDS IN THE HIGH BOILING PRODUCT BY (A) FIRST DISCONTINUING THE FLOW OF HYDROCARBON FEED TO THE SECOND-STAGE, (B) THEN CONTACTING THE SECOND STAGE CATALYST WITH OXYGEN, (C) CONTACTING THE OXIDIZED SECOND STAGE CATALYST WITH A SULFIDING COMPOUND AT CONDITIONS TO CONVERT THE IRON GROUP METAL COMPONENT TO A SULFIDE FORM, (D) CONTACTING THE SECOND STAGE CATALYST WITH FROM ABOUT 0.001% TO ABOUT 0.2 WT. OF CATALYST OF FLUORINE IN THE FORM OF A VAPOR PHASE FLUORIDING COMPOUND AT A TEMPERATURE OF FROM 350* TO 1100*F., AND (E) RE-ESTABLISHING THE FLOW OF HYDROCARBON FEED TO THE SECOND-STAGE.