Abstract: Sulfur-containing impurities are removed from a refined hydrocarbon feed by contact thereof with a porous sulfur-reactive agent having a pore volume of at least 0.15 cc per cc of which at least 5% is in pores having a diameter in the range 0.1 to 15 microns. The agent contains at least one sulfur-reactive material from the group copper, iron, zinc and compounds thereof.

Abstract: A method is provided for preparing a porous catalyst carrier having a pore volume of at least 0.5 cc/g, a content of micropores in which the pore diameter is between 80 and 150 A. which constitutes at least 70% of the pore volume and a content of macropores which constitutes less than 3% of the pore volume. In the method, a powdered solid comprised of predominantly alpha-alumina monohydrate and sized in the range below 500 microns is treated with a particular amount of a monobasic acid. The acid in the resulting mixture is then at least partially neutralized by admixing with a nitrogen base such as aqueous ammonia. The treated and neutralized feed is converted into a catalyst carrier by shaping as desired, drying, and calcining. Further aspects of the invention are a hydrodesulfurization catalyst prepared using the present carrier and a hydrodesulfurization process for metals-contaminated hydrocarbon feeds using the catalyst.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for upgrading a hydrogenated distillate oil by extracting nitrogen compounds from the oil. In the process, these compounds are selectively extracted from the oil in a liquid-liquid extraction using as the extracting medium a solution of ferric chloride in furfural. Following intimate contacting of the oil with the extracting solution, the resulting mixture is separated into an oily raffinate phase and a solvent-extract phase. The raffinate oil is especially suitable as a feedstock for a catalytic cracking or hydroprocessing stage employing an acidic catalyst. The extraction is carried out under moderate conditions of temperature and pressure.

Abstract: A particle pack composition comprising alumina having improved attrition resistance is produced by dry steaming a dough-like mixture of water, a hydrocolloid-forming compound and particles comprising alumina prior to calcining the mixture.

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 is provided for removing unfilterable suspended solids from an oil wherein these solids are agglomerated to separable conglomerated solids by adding to the oil an agglomerating agent comprising a mixture of acetone and 2-butanone.

Abstract: A method is provided for preparing a porous catalyst carrier having a pore volume of at least 0.5 cc/g, a content of micropores in which the pore diameter is between 80 and 150 A. which constitutes at least 70% of the pore volume and a content of macropores which constitutes less than 3% of the pore volume. In the method, a powdered solid comprised of predominantly alpha-alumina monohydrate and sized in the range below 500 microns is treated with a particular amount of a monobasic acid. The acid in the resulting mixture is then at least partially neutralized by admixing with a nitrogen base such as aqueous ammonia. The treated and neutralized feed is converted into a novel catalyst carrier by shaping as desired, drying, and calcining. Further aspects of the invention are a catalytic reforming catalyst containing the present carrier.

Abstract: Heavy oil feedstocks containing at least 20 ppm metals, particularly residuum feedstocks, are hydrodesulfurized using a catalyst prepared by impregnating Group VIb and Group VIII metals or metal compounds into a support comprising alumina wherein the support has at least 70 volume percent of its pore volume in pores having a diameter between 80 and 150 Angstroms and less than 3 volume percent of its pore volume in pores having a diameter above 1000 Angstroms. The catalyst preferably has at least 80 volume percent of its pore volume in pores having a diameter between 80 and 150 Angstroms and less than 1.5 volume percent of its pore volume in pores having a diameter above 1000 Angstroms.

Abstract: A process is provided for preparing catalytically active emerald green colored alumina by contacting colorless alumina with carbonyl sulfide. This material catalyzes the reduction of sulfur dioxide by carbon monoxide.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a novel catalyst support, a method of making said support by treatment of prior art crystalline catalyst supports with hydroxy-aluminum solution and hydrocarbon conversion processes wherein the catalyst used therein includes said support.

Abstract: A hydrocarbon feed containing an olefinic component and sulfur-containing impurities is upgraded in a sulfur removal process without hydrogenating the olefins by contacting a mixture of the feed and hydrogen gas with a catalyst comprising copper under conditions, including a temperature in the range of about 120.degree. C to 400.degree. C.

Abstract: A petroleum oil containing, in parts by weight, at least 10 parts of vanadium and/or nickel per million parts of the oil is upgraded by contacting the oil in the liquid phase with an aqueous solution of at least one extraction agent of the group ferric salts soluble in acidified water and stannic chloride. The aqueous solution must have a pH at least sufficiently acidic to inhibit precipitation of the agent as hydroxide or basic salt.

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: Hydrocarbon mixtures having low sulfur contents are obtained from sulfur-containing vacuum gas oils by hydrodesulfurizing the gas oils under mild hydrodesulfurizing conditions, including use of:1. a select high-activity hydrodesulfurization catalyst,2. a temperature in the range 550.degree.F. to 850.degree. F., and3. a hydrogen partial pressure in the range 300 to 800 psig.New and advantageous results are obtained by integrating the foregoing process with one or more other process steps including:1. hydrodesulfurization of sulfur-containing vacuum residuum,2. solvent deasphalting of vacuum residuum, or3. hydrodesulfurizing a vacuum residuum and delayed coking at least a portion of the product.

Abstract: Waste water containing dissolved acid-gas and ammonia impurities is processed for the separate recovery of the acid gas, ammonia and recycle water. In a further aspect, a purified pyrolysis gas is produced by treating a raw pyrolysis gas product stream utilizing the aforementioned recycle water and a pair of coupled acid-gas-absorber and acid-gas-stripper columns.

Abstract: In the absorption of an acid gas by an aqueous alkaline solution under gas-liquid absorption conditions, undesirable foaming is reduced by contacting the aqueous solution in a separate contact zone with a hydrocarbon solvent containing an effective amount of an extraction adjuvant.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for increasing the acid catalytic activity of a crystalline zeolitic aluminosilicate having a Group IIA cation as a substantial portion of its cations, having at least 6-Angstrom-sized pores and being substantially free of hydrogen cations. The activating procedure comprises in sequence a treatment with a reducing atmosphere followed by a treatment with an oxygen-containing gas, the former treatment being at a temperature above 700.degree. C.

Abstract: The hydrogen sulfide content of hydrogen-sulfide-contaminated elemental sulfur in the liquid phase is reduced by an aqueous extraction which is carried out under superatmospheric pressure and a suitable temperature.

Abstract: Method of activating a catalyst composite comprising particles of a catalytic metals-free crystalline zeolitic molecular sieve dispersed in a gel matrix comprising silica-alumina, a Group VI hydrogenating component and a Group VIII hydrogenating component, which method comprises heating said catalyst composite in an oxygen-containing gas stream at 1200.degree. to 1600.degree. F. for 0.25 to 43 hours, and the catalyst composite so activated.

Abstract: A cogelled catalyst comprisng a crystalline zeolitic molecular sieve component containing less than 5 weight percent sodium and containing ions selected from Mn, rare earths of atomic numbers 58-71, and alkaline earths Mg, Ca, Sr and Ba, said catalyst further comprising an alumina-containing gel component, a Group VI hydrogenating component and a Group VIII hydrogenating component, and processes using said catalyst.