Abstract: Operation of regenerators of commercial equipment for catalytic cracking of hydrocarbon feedstock, such as gas oil, in the absence of added hydrogen is improved considerably by use of a cracking catalyst which contains a minute amount, as low as fractions of a part per million (ppm), of a metal from periods 5 and 6 of Group VIII of the Periodic Table or rhenium. These powerful dehydrogenation metals, in the amounts here used, do not have serious adverse effect on the cracking operation and reduce CO content of flue gases from the regenerator to negligible amounts.

Abstract: Non-hydrogenative endothermic catalytic cracking of hydrocarbon, particularly petroleum, fractions at relatively low pressures and high temperatures in a system where the endothermic heat required for cracking is supplied by catalyst as the heat transfer medium, which catalyst has been heated by burning coke deposited on the catalyst during cracking; and wherein a decomposable compound of platinum, palladium, ruthenium, iridium, osmium, rhodium or rhenium, is introduced into contact with the cracking catalyst during said process.

Abstract: The operation of a fluid catalytic cracking unit having a regenerator designed to completely combust carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide thermally is improved by circulating a trace amount of at least one metal of the group consisting of platinum, palladium, iridium, osmium, rhodium, ruthenium and rhenium with the circulating inventory of solid acidic cracking catalyst.

Abstract: An improved process is provided for catalytic isomerization of monocyclic methyl-substituted aromatic hydrocarbon compounds of from 8 to 10 carbon atoms contained in a feedstock also containing ethylbenzene in a reaction zone maintained under conditions such that said isomerization is accomplished in the vapor phase. The catalyst for the process contains zeolite characterized by a constraint index, hereinafter defined, within the approximate range of 1 to 12. The improvement in the process comprises contacting the catalyst, in situ, with one or more basic nitrogen compounds or precursors thereof.

Abstract: An improved process using a rare earth-containing catalyst is provided. The catalyst comprises a composite of matrix and rare earth or of zeolite, rare earth and matrix, usually alumina. The rare earth can be a single metal or a mixture of rare earth metals. The process involved is the conversion of alcohols or ethers to gasoline boiling range hydrocarbons.

Abstract: A catalytic process is provided for cracking a hydrocarbon charge stock containing aromatic nuclei components and non-aromatic nuclei components which involves contacting such chargestock with a catalyst composition having an alkali metal content less than about 1.5 weight percent and containing a mixture of faujasite and mordenite in which contacting takes place under catalytic cracking conditions of such severity that the conversion level exceeds that attributable to conversion of the non-aromatic nuclei portion of the chargestock. Under such conditions, the coke yield is substantially lower than would be obtained with the same catalyst in the absence of mordenite at the same level of conversion.

Abstract: A catalytic process for cracking of gas oil is disclosed, wherein trace amounts of metals of Periods 5 and 6 of Group VIII or rhenium is added to the total catalyst inventory so as to enhance significant conversion of the CO in the regenerator while maintaining the efficiency of the cracking reaction at high levels.

Abstract: An improved method for preparing a crystalline aluminosilicate zeolite having uniform pores and greater than 40 percent crystallinity which comprises forming a critical reaction mixture containing a source of at least two cations, silica, alumina and water, wherein at least about 70 weight percent of the alumina is provided to the reaction mixture by an alumina-containing clay being added thereto, and maintaining the reaction mixture at a temperature and pressure for a time necessary to crystallize the crystalline aluminosilicate from the reaction mixture. It is desirable to preform said reaction mixture into discrete particles such as pellets or extrudates which retain their shape and acquire substantial strength in the crystallization process.

Abstract: Non-hydrogenative endothermic catalytic cracking of hydrocarbon, particularly petroleum, fractions at relatively low pressures and high temperatures in a system where the endothermic heat required for cracking is supplied by catalyst as the heat transfer medium, which catalyst has been heated by burning coke deposited on the catalyst during cracking; and wherein a decomposable compound of platinum, palladium, ruthenium, iridium, osmium, rhodium or rhenium, is introduced into contact with the cracking catalyst during said process.

Abstract: This invention is directed to the shape selective conversion of a hydrocarbon charge over erionite which has been activated by the steps comprising calcining the erionite as a first step, contacting with a solution of an ammonium salt, contacting with a solution of metal salt containing a metal such as calcium, calcining again, contacting again with a solution of an ammonium salt and then with a solution of a metal salt containing nickel or another similar metal, and finally calcining. It is also directed to the catalyst utilized in affecting said conversion and to the method for preparing such catalyst.

Abstract: A catalytic process for cracking of gas oil is disclosed, wherein trace amounts of metals of Periods 5 and 6 of Group VIII or rhenium is added to the total catalyst inventory so as to enhance significant conversion of the CO in the regenerator while maintaining the efficiency of the cracking reaction at high levels.

Abstract: The conversion of methanol to gasoline boiling products in a plurality of sequentially arranged catalyst beds comprising a dehydration catalyst followed by a special class of crystalline zeolite conversion catalyst is described wherein the dehydration catalyst life is prolonged and durene formed in the process is recycled to the zeolite catalyst conversion step.

Abstract: This invention is directed to the shape selective conversion of a hydrocarbon charge over erionite which has been activated by the steps comprising calcining the erionite as a first step, contacting with a solution of an ammonium salt, contacting with a solution of metal salt containing a metal such as calcium, calcining again, contacting again with a solution of an ammonium salt and then with a solution of a metal salt containing nickel or another similar metal, and finally calcining. It is also directed to the catalyst utilized in affecting said conversion and to the method for preparing such catalyst.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for converting hydrocarbons in the presence of a catalyst comprising a ZSM-35 crystalline aluminosilicate, which zeolite, as crystallized, is in the form of very small particles having diameters, in the range of 0.005 micron to 0.1 micron. The use of such small crystalline ZSM-35 zeolite as catalyst in hydrocarbon conversion serves to retard catalyst aging during the hydrocarbon conversion reaction.