Abstract: Methane is produced by passing hydrogen, carbon monoxide and an aqueous liquid phase downwardly through a fixed bed of a catalyst containing ruthenium on a carrier such as alumina, separating and externally coolng in a heat exchanger the resultant aqueous phase before recycling, thereby limiting the reaction temperature within a range from 200.degree. to 320.degree. C.

Abstract: This process for converting a charge of heavy oils or petroleum residues to gaseous and distillable hydrocarbons comprises the steps of (a) admixing said charge with a first hydrogenated recycle oil obtained in a subsequent step of the process, heating the mixture to 350.degree.-450.degree. C., admixing it with a reducing gas at a temperature of at least 800.degree. C. and maintaining a temperature of 530.degree.-850.degree. C. and a pressure of at least 20 bars for 0.1 to 60 seconds (b) admixing the resultant product with a second hydrogenated recycle oil whose temperature is lower than 300.degree. C., thereby decreasing the temperature of the resultant mixture to less than 450.degree. C., then contacting it with a steam-hydrogen stream, thereby vaporizing at least 80% of the liquid to a gaseous phase (c) treating the unvaporized remaining fraction with oxygen and steam to form a reducing gas at a temperature of at least 800.degree. C.

Abstract: Hydrorefining of a hydrocarbon charge of high metal content with a catalyst containing alumina, a metal from group VI and a metal from the iron group, of a specific surface from 120 to 200 m.sup.2 /g, a total pore volume from 0.8 to 1.2 cc/g and a pore distribution as follows:0 to 10% of pores smaller than 100 A35 to 60% of pores from 100 to 600 A35 to 55% of pores greater than 600 A,including 10 to 25% of pores greater than 10,000 A, said catalyst optionally containing additionally an alkaline-earth metal.

Abstract: The viscosity of heavy oils is reduced in order to facilitate pipe line transportation thereof. A fraction of the heavy oil is deasphalted in the presence of C.sub.5 -C.sub.7 hydrocarbons, a portion of the separated asphalt is converted to synthesis gas, at least a portion of said gas is used to manufacture an alcohol mixture including methanol and C.sub.2 to C.sub.10 alcohols, which mixture is admixed with the heavy oil before transportation thereof. This procedure is more beneficial to the transported heavy oil than the prior processes which do not comprise the conversion of the asphalt fraction of the heavy oil.

Abstract: A C.sub.4 cut is upgraded according to the following steps:(a) the dried C.sub.4 cut is polymerized in the presence of fluorinated alumina, boron-alumina or silica-alumina, to convert at least 95% of isobutene to dimers and trimers, the conversion of the normal butenes being at most 3%,(b) the whole polymerization effluent is hydro-isomerized in the presence of a group VIII metal catalyst, to isomerize at least 90% of the 1-butene of said effluent,(c) the hydro-isomerization effluent is fractionated and a resultant fraction is alkylated.Resultant alkylate and mixture of dimers and trimers can be mixed and used as gasoline.

Abstract: Heavy asphaltenic oils are converted to lighter fractions by(a) Deasphalting the asphaltenic oil with an aliphatic C.sub.5 -C.sub.7 hydrocarbon,(b) Maintaining the oil with hydrogen at 440.degree.-530.degree. C. and 40-140 bars in a non-catalytic conversion zone, and(c) Feeding the product of step (b) to a catalytic conversion zone at 320.degree.-430.degree. C. and 40-140 bars, the catalyst in said zone comprising at least one molybdenum and/or tungsten compound and at least one nickel and/or cobalt compound.

Abstract: Process for manufacturing a constituent for motor car gasoline from a synthesis gas containing essentially carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and hydrogen, comprising producing methanol and its higher homologs by treatment of said synthesis gas in a first catalytic reaction zone at 230.degree.-350.degree. C., cooling and condensing the effluent therefrom, separating from the liquid condensate a gas fraction, treating the latter at 240.degree.-300.degree. C. in a second catalytic reaction zone to produce a liquid methanol fraction and admixing said methanol fraction with said liquid condensate to form said gasoline constituent.

Abstract: Catalyst for dealkylating, in the presence of steam, a hydrocarbon charge, obtained for example from a catalytic reforming unit or from a unit for the production of aromatic hydrocarbons, and containing at least one alkylaromatic hydrocarbon such as toluene or a xylene, said catalyst containing an alumina carrier of a specific surface higher than 50 m.sup.2 /g and, by weight with respect to the catalyst, from 0.1 to 2% of rhodium, from 0.05 to 2% of at least one metal selected from copper, silver and gold, from 0.05 to 2% of rhenium and from 0.02 to 5% of at least one additional metal selected from lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium, beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium and uranium.

Abstract: Hydrocarbon cuts of high olefin content are desulfurized, without substantial loss in octane number, by reaction with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst comprising (a) a specified non-acidic carried and (b) cobalt and at least one of tungsten and molybdenum, the atomic ratio ##EQU1## being higher than 0.55.

Abstract: Process for upgrading an olefinic C.sub.4 cut issued from a cracking or steam cracking unit, comprising subjecting said cut to isomerization conditions so as to convert at least 80% of its 1-butene content to 2-butenes, subjecting the so-treated C.sub.4 cut to polymerization conditions so as to convert at least 90% of its isobutene content to isobutene dimers and trimers without substantially converting the normal butenes, separating the isobutene dimers and trimers, alkylating the remaining fraction and fractionating the latter to an alkylate, L P G and an isobutane containing fraction.

Abstract: A process is provided for selectively polymerizing isobutene in an olefinic C.sub.4 cut comprising isobutene and normal butenes by contacting the cut with a catalyst consisting essentially of silica-alumina; whereby at least 90% of the isobutene and less than 10% of the normal butenes in the cut are converted.

Abstract: A mixture of heavy hydrocarbons, hydrogen and fresh catalyst comprising metals from the groups Vb, VIb, VIIb or VIII is passed first in a furnace for a limited heating time and then in a reactor where recycled catalyst is also added; the recycled catalyst is used in the form of a suspension recovered by fractionation of the reaction product.

Abstract: Process for polymerizing olefinic hydrocarbons at a temperature from 0.degree. to 90.degree. C., preferably from 20.degree. to 80.degree. C. in the presence of a catalyst containing aluminum oxide and, per part by weight thereof, boron oxide in a proportion of 0.01 to 1, preferably 0.07 to 0.15 part by weight and halogen in a proportion of 0.5 to 20%, preferably 4 to 12%, said catalyst resulting from the reaction of an aluminum compound of formula AlX.sub.y R.sub.(3-y) where X is halogen, R is a hydrocarbon radical and y is selected from 1, 3/2, 2 and 3, with a carrier containing aluminum oxide and boron oxide in a proportion to aluminum oxide from 1 to 100%.

Abstract: Process for reforming hydrocarbons or producing aromatic hydrocarbons under severe operating conditions, in the presence of a catalyst comprising an alumina carrier and, expressed by weight with respect to alumina:(a) from 0.05 to 0.6% of platinum(b) from 0.01 to 2% of rhenium(c) from 0.05 to 3% of thallium or indium, and(d) from 0.1 to 10% of a halogen.

Abstract: A C.sub.4 olefinic cracking cut is subjected first to catalytic polymerization and then to fractionation: the resultant isobutene dimers and trimers fraction is hydrogenated, while the remainder is alkylated. The resultant product is a gasoline of high isooctane content.

Abstract: Catalyst for a process of hydroreforming or aromatic hydrocarbon production, comprising an alumina carrier, at least one noble metal of the platinum family, antimony, a metal selected from gallium, indium and thallium and halogen, said catalyst being used in a series of successive reaction zones as a moving bed, transferred from one reaction zone to the next, from the last reaction zone to a regeneration zone and from the latter to the first reaction zone, said process being preferably conducted at a temperature from 510.degree. to 600.degree. C. and under a pressure from 1 to 18 kg/cm.sup.2.

Abstract: Process for selectively hydrogenating acetylenic hydrocarbons such as vinylacetylene contained in an unsaturated hydrocarbon fraction such as a C.sub.4 fraction also containing a diolefinic hydrocarbon such as butadiene, without substantially hydrogenating said diolefinic hydrocarbon, comprising the step of contacting said fraction, at least partially in the liquid phase, in the presence of hydrogen, with a catalyst of palladium on alumina whose palladium crystallites have an average size of at least 50 Angstroms, said step being optionally followed with a step of contacting the resultant fraction from the preceding step, in the presence of hydrogen, with a catalyst of palladium an alumina whose palladium crystallites have an average size of at most 45 Angstroms.

Abstract: Catalyst, particularly useful in catalytic reforming and for producing highly pure aromatic hydrocarbons, comprising an alumina carrier and containing, expressed in proportion of the weight of the alumina carrier:0.005 to 1% of platinum0.01 to 4% of gallium, indium or thallium0.01 to 2% of tungsten, and0.1 to 10% of halogen.

Abstract: Process for reforming hydrocarbons or producing aromatic hydrocarbons under severe operating conditions, in the presence of a catalyst comprising an alumina carrier and, expressed by weight with respect to alumina:(a) from 0.05 to 0.6% of platinum(b) from 0.01 to 2% of rhenium(c) from 0.05 to 3% of thallium or indium, and(d) from 0.1 to 10% of a halogen.

Abstract: Catalytic process for steam dealkylation of a charge containing at least one alkyl aromatic hydrocarbon, such as a charge issued from effluents of units for catalytic reforming or for producing aromatic hydrocarbons, wherein the catalyst contains an alumina carrier, from 0.1 to 1% of rhodium, from 0.05 to 1% of TiO.sub.2 and optionally from 0.1 to 1% of ruthenium, palladium, iridium, platinum or osmium and/or from 0.01 to 5% of lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium or cesium.