Abstract: Aromatic hydrocarbons of high purity are produced from saturated or unsaturated gasolines and hydrogen in the presence of a new catalyst containing alumina, platinum, at least one metal selected from the group consisting of iridium, rhodium and palladium and at least one metal selected from the group consisting of copper, silver and gold.

Abstract: Process for producing butane and gasoline of high isooctane content, from a C.sub.4 olefin cut issued from a steam cracking unit, comprising the steps of:polymerizing at least 90% of the isobutene of the cut mainly to dimers and trimers thereof,hydrogenating the resulting polymerization mixture to normal butane, isooctane and isododecane,supplying the effluent from the hydrogenation unit to a separation zone to recover a gaseous fraction and a liquid mixture, andfractionating the liquid mixture to separate gasoline of high isooctane content, a C.sub.3.sup.- fraction and a butane fraction which is recycled to the steam cracking unit.

Abstract: This process for upgrading effluents from syntheses of the Fischer-Tropsch type comprises several steps applied to the three cuts obtained from these effluents, i.e. a "light fraction", a "light oil" and a "decanted oil". The products are mainly gasoline, kerosene and gasoil cuts.

Abstract: Hydrocarbons are dehydrocyclized to aromatics over a new catalyst comprising a carrier such for example as alumina, platinum, at least one metal selected from iridium, tungsten and ruthenium, cobalt, at least one metal selected from the group consisting of copper, manganese, silver and gold, and at least one halogen such for example as chlorine.

Abstract: Process for producing aromatic hydrocarbons from gasolines substantially free of mono- and diolefins, comprising an aromizing step in the presence of a catalyst at a temperature from 400.degree. to 600.degree. C under a pressure from 1 to 30 kg/cm.sup.2 followed with the separation of an aromatic cut and of an alkylaromatic cut and a step of hydrodealkylating said alkylaromatic cut by means of hydrogen recovered from the aromizing step, in the presence of a catalyst, at a temperature from 400.degree. to 650.degree. C, under a pressure substantially equal or lower than that of the aromizing step.

Abstract: New catalyst comprising a carrier such for example as alumina, platinum, at least one metal selected from iridium, tungsten and ruthenium, cobalt, at least one metal selected from the group consisting of copper, manganese, silver and gold, and at least one halogen such for example as chlorine.

Abstract: Process for producing aromatic hydrocarbons, particularly benzene and/or toluene from a feed charge containing saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons, by catalytic treatment of said charge with hydrogen, fractionation of the resulting product to separate a fraction containing benzene and/or toluene, extractive distillation of at least one aromatic hydrocarbon in a column, by means of an extraction solvent from which said hydrocarbon is subsequently separated, and recycling to the reaction zone of at least one portion of the products recovered at the top of said extractive distillation column and containing essentially C.sub.6 and C.sub.7 saturated hydrocarbons.

Abstract: Process for hydrodealkylating alkylaromatic hydrocarbons using a catalyst comprising at least two metals deposited on a carrier, a first of these two metals being selected either from the group consisting of cobalt, ruthenium, osmium, palladium, rhodium, iridium and platinum or from the group consisting of chromium, molybdenum, tungsten and manganese, and the second of these two metals being selected from zinc, cadmium, gallium, indium, thallium, manganese, copper, silver, gold, yttrium, titanium, niobium, tentalum, chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, rhenium, germanium, tin and lead.

Abstract: New catalyst, particularly suitable for dehydrogenating saturated hydrocarbons, which contains alumina, at least one metal selected from molybdenum, tungsten and rhenium and at least one metal selected from gallium, indium, thallium, germanium, tin, lead, antimony and bismuth, said catalyst having a specific surface from 20 to 150 m.sup.2 /g and a neutralization heat by ammonia absorption at 320.degree.C under 300 mm Hg lower than 10 calories per gram.

Abstract: Process for hydrodealkylating an alkylaromatic hydrocarbon charge at a temperature from 400.degree. to 650.degree.C under a pressure from 1 to 30 kg/cm.sup.2 at a space velocity from 1 to 10 by reacting said charge with hydrogen in a molar proportion with respect to the effluent of the reactor in the range from 1 to 10, in the presence of a catalyst containing alumina and at least one metal selected from ruthenium, osmium, palladium, rhodium, iridium, platinum and manganese in an amount from 0.05 to 5 % of the catalyst, said catalyst having a specific surface from 1 to 100 m.sup.2 /g., a total pore volume of 0.2-0.8 g/cc and a heat of neutralization lower than 10 calories per gram are measured by ammonia adsorption at 320.degree. C. under 300 mm Hg.