Abstract: Methods for conversion of a hydrocarbon feed to a total product are described. Contact of the hydrocarbon feed with one or more catalysts produces the total product. The total product includes a crude product that is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa having a Ni/Fe/V content between 80% and 120% of the Ni/Fe/V content of the hydrocarbon feed, a molybdenum content of at most 90% of the molybdenum content of the hydrocarbon feed, a residue content of at most 90% of the residue content of the hydrocarbon feed, a C5/C7 content of at most 90% of the a C5/C7 content of the hydrocarbon feed. Hydrocarbon compositions of said crude products are described herein.

Abstract: Systems and methods for producing a crude product are described herein. Systems include an upstream contacting zone and a downstream contacting zone coupled to the upstream contacting zone. The upstream contacting zone and the downstream contacting zone include one or more catalysts. Contact of a hydrocarbon feed with the one or more of the catalysts produces a hydrocarbon feed/total product mixture having a molybdenum content of at most 90% of the molybdenum of the hydrocarbon feed. Contact of the hydrocarbon feed/total product mixture in downstream with one or more downstream catalysts produces a crude product having a molybdenum content of at most 90% of the molybdenum content of the hydrocarbon feed and at most 90% of the residue content of the hydrocarbon feed. Methods of producing a crude product using said systems are described herein. Compositions of said crude product produced from said systems and methods are described herein.

Abstract: Methods for conversion of a hydrocarbon feed to a total product are described. Contact of the hydrocarbon feed with one or more catalysts at controlled contacting conditions produces the total product. The total product includes a crude product that is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa and has a basic nitrogen content of at most 90% of the basic nitrogen content of the hydrocarbon feed.

Abstract: Methods for conversion of a hydrocarbon feed to a total product are described. A hydrocarbon feed is contacted with one or more catalysts to produce the total product. The total product includes a crude product that is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa having a residue content of at most 90% of the residue content of the hydrocarbon feed.

Abstract: Systems for treating a hydrocarbon feed to produce a total product are described herein. The system includes an upstream contacting system and a downstream contacting system. The upstream contacting system includes one or more catalysts. The hydrocarbon feed has a viscosity of at least 100 cSt at 37.8° C. Contact of the hydrocarbon feed with one or more of the catalysts produces the total product. The total product includes a crude product having a viscosity at 37.8° C. of at most 50% of the viscosity of the first feed at 37.8° C. The downstream contacting system is coupled to the upstream contacting system and configured to receive the first feed. The downstream contacting system includes a cracking unit and/or a deasphalting unit.

Abstract: Described is a catalyst and process useful in the hydrodesulfurization of a distillate feedstock to manufacture a low-sulfur distillate product. The catalyst comprises a calcined mixture of inorganic oxide material, a high concentration of a molybdenum component, and a high concentration of a Group VIII metal component. The mixture that is calcined to form the calcined mixture comprises molybdenum trioxide, a Group VIII metal compound, and an inorganic oxide material. The catalyst is made by mixing the aforementioned starting materials and forming therefrom an agglomerate that is calcined to yield the calcined mixture that may be used as the catalyst or catalyst precursor.

Abstract: Continuously contacting a crude feed with one or more catalysts for at least 500 hours at a liquid hourly space velocity of at least 1 h?1 produces a total product that includes a crude product. At least one of the catalysts has a pore size distribution with a median pore diameter of at least 180 ? and includes one or more metals from Column 6 of the Periodic Table and/or one or more compounds of one or more metals from Column 6 of the Periodic Table.

Abstract: A catalyst that one or more metals from Columns 6-10 of the Periodic Table and/or one or more compounds of one or more metals from Columns 6-10 of the Periodic Table is described. The catalyst exhibits one or more bands in a range from 800 cm?1 to 900 cm?1, as determined by Raman Spectroscopy. Methods of contacting a crude feed with hydrogen with the catalyst to produce a crude product having selected properties are also described.

Abstract: A catalyst that one or more metals from Column 5 of the Periodic Table and/or one or more compounds of one or more metals from Column 5 of the Periodic Table is described. The catalyst exhibits one or more bands in a range from 650 cm?1 to 1000 cm?1, as determined by Raman Spectroscopy. Methods of contacting a crude feed with hydrogen with the catalyst to produce a crude product with minimal hydrogen uptake are also described.

Abstract: Contacting a crude feed with one or more catalysts to produce a total product that includes the crude product is described. The crude feed has a TAN of at least 1. At least one of the catalysts includes one or more metals from Columns 6-10 of the Periodic Table and/or one or more compounds of one or more metals from Columns 6-10 of the Periodic Table. Contacting conditions are controlled contacting such that the crude product has a TAN from about 0.001 to about 0.5.

Abstract: Described is a method for the selective hydrodesulfurization of an olefin-containing hydrocarbon feedstock that uses a catalyst composition having a high content of a nickel component and an effective but small amount of a molybdenum component supported on a porous refractory oxide. A preferred catalyst composition contains an immaterial amount of a cobalt component.

Abstract: Methods and systems for contacting of a crude feed with one or more catalysts to produce a total product that includes a crude product are described. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The crude product has a nitrogen content of at most 90% of the nitrogen content of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.

Abstract: Methods and systems for contacting of a crude feed with one or more catalysts to produce a total product that includes a crude product are described. At least one of the catalysts is a bulk metal catalyst. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The crude product may have MCR content at most 90% of the MCR content of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.

Abstract: Methods and systems for contacting of a crude feed with one or more catalysts to produce a total product that includes a crude product are described. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The crude product has an MCR content of at most 90% of the MCR content of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.

Abstract: Methods and systems for contacting of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product are described. At least one of the catalysts is an uncalcined catalyst. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The crude product has a nitrogen content of at most 90% of the nitrogen content of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.

Abstract: Methods and systems for contacting of a crude feed with one or more catalysts to produce a total product that includes a crude product are described. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The crude product may have a total content of alkali metal and alkaline-earth metal in metal salts of organic acids of at most 90% of the total content of alkali metal and alkaline-earth metal in metal salts of organic acids of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.

Abstract: A method of making a high activity catalyst composition suitable for use in the hydrodesulfurization of a middle distillate feed, such as diesel fuel, having a high concentration of sulfur, to thereby provide a low sulfur middle distillate product. The method comprises heat treating aluminum hydroxide under controlled temperature conditions thereby converting said aluminum hydroxide to gamma-alumina to give a converted aluminum hydroxide, and controlling the fraction of said converted aluminum hydroxide that is gamma-alumina by controlling said controlled temperature conditions to within a calcination temperature range of from 850° F. (454° C.) to 950° C. (510° C.) so that essentially all of said aluminum hydroxide is converted to a transition alumina but less than a material amount of the converted aluminum hydroxide is converted to a transition alumina other than gamma-alumina.

Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude feed has a total content of alkali metal, and alkaline-earth metal, in metal salts of organic acids of at least 0.00001 grams per gram of crude feed. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. Contacting conditions are controlled such that the liquid hourly space velocity in a contacting zone is over 10 h?1 and the crude product has a total content of alkali metal, and alkaline-earth metal, in metal salts of organic acids of at most 90% of the total content of alkali metal, and alkaline-earth metal, in metal salts of organic acids of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.

Abstract: Contact of a crude feed that has a viscosity of at least 10 cSt at 37.8° C. (100° F.) and an API gravity of at least 10 with one or more catalysts produces a total product that includes a crude product. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa. The crude product has a viscosity of at most 90% of the viscosity of the crude feed and an API gravity of about 70% to about 130% of the API gravity of the crude feed. In some instances, one or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.

Abstract: Contact of a crude feed with one or more catalysts produces a total product that include a crude product. The crude feed has a total content of alkali metal, and alkaline-earth metal, in metal salts of organic acids of at least 0.00001 grams per gram of crude feed. At least one of the catalysts includes vanadium. The crude product is a liquid mixture at 25° C. and 0.101 MPa and has a total content of alkali metal, and alkaline-earth metal, in metal salts of organic acids of at most 90% of the total content of alkali metal, and alkaline-earth metal, in metal salts of organic acids of the crude feed. One or more other properties of the crude product may be changed by at least 10% relative to the respective properties of the crude feed.