Abstract: The invention describes a process for the capture of organometallic impurities in a hydrocarbon feedstock of gasoline type containing olefins and sulfur, in which a capture body is brought into contact with the feedstock to be treated and a stream of hydrogen, said capture body comprises an active phase based on nickel oxide particles with a size of less than or equal to 15 nm, said active phase not comprising other metal elements of Group VIb or Group VIII, which are deposited on a porous support chosen from the group consisting of aluminas, silica, silicas/aluminas, or also titanium or magnesium oxides, used alone or as a mixture with alumina or silica/alumina.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the hydrodesulfurization of a sulfur-containing olefinic gasoline cut in which said gasoline cut, hydrogen and a regenerated catalyst are brought into contact, said process being carried out at a temperature of between 200° C. and 400° C., a total pressure of between 1 and 3 MPa, an hourly space velocity, defined as being the flow rate by volume of feedstock relative to the volume of catalyst, of between 1 and 10 h?1; and a hydrogen/gasoline feedstock ratio by volume of between 100 and 1200 Sl/l, said regenerated catalyst resulting from an at least partially spent catalyst resulting from a process for the hydrodesulfurization of a sulfur-containing olefinic gasoline cut and comprises at least one metal from group VIII, at least one metal from group VIb and an oxide support.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the rejuvenation of an at least partially spent catalyst resulting from a hydrotreating process, said at least partially spent catalyst resulting from a fresh catalyst comprising a metal from group VIII, a metal from group VIb, an oxide support, and optionally phosphorus, said at least partially spent catalyst additionally comprising carbon in a content of between 2% and 20% by weight, with respect to the total weight of the at least partially spent catalyst, and sulfur in a content of between 1% and 8% by weight, with respect to the total weight of the at least partially spent catalyst, said process comprising the following stages: a) said spent catalyst is brought into contact with an impregnation solution containing a compound comprising a metal from group VIb, b) a drying stage is carried out at a temperature of less than 200° C.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the hydrodesulfurization of a sulfur-containing olefinic gasoline cut in which said gasoline cut, hydrogen and a rejuvenated catalyst are brought into contact, said hydrodesulfurization process being carried out at a temperature of between 200° C. and 400° C., a total pressure of between 1 and 3 MPa, an hourly space velocity, defined as being the flow rate by volume of feedstock relative to the volume of catalyst, of between 1 and 10 h?1 and a hydrogen/gasoline feedstock ratio by volume of between 100 and 1200 Sl/l, said rejuvenated catalyst resulting from a hydrotreating process and comprises at least one metal from group VIII, at least one metal from group VIb, an oxide support and at least one organic compound containing oxygen and/or nitrogen and/or sulfur.

Abstract: A process for rejuvenating an at least partially spent catalyst resulting from a hydrodesulfurization process of a sulfur-containing olefinic gasoline cut, where the at least partially spent catalyst result is from a fresh catalyst a metal from group VIII, a metal from group VIb, and an oxide support, where the process includes a) regenerating the at least partially spent catalyst in an oxygen-containing gas stream at a temperature between 350° C. and 550° C., b) the regenerated catalyst is brought into contact with an impregnation solution containing a compound containing a metal from group VIb, the molar ratio of the metal from group VIb added per metal from group VIb already present in the regenerated catalyst being between 0.15 and 2.5 mol/mol, c) a drying stage is carried out at a temperature of less than 200° C., and the use of the rejuvenated catalyst in a hydrodesulfurization process.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a catalytic material of an electrode for electrochemical reduction reactions, said material comprising an active phase based on at least one metal from group VIb and an electroconductive support, which process is carried out according to at least the following stages: a stage of bringing said support into contact with at least one solution containing at least one precursor of at least one metal from group VIb; a drying stage at a temperature of less than 250° C., without a subsequent calcination stage; a stage of sulfurization at a temperature of between 100° C. and 600° C.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hydrotreating catalyst comprising at least one group VIB metal, at least one group VIII metal and an alumina support having a gamma alumina content greater than 50% by weight and less than 100% by weight with respect to the weight of the support, said support having a specific surface area comprised between 25 and 150 m2/g.

Abstract: The invention describes a process for the capture of organometallic impurities in a hydrocarbon feedstock of gasoline type containing olefins and sulfur, in which a capture body is brought into contact with the feedstock to be treated and a stream of hydrogen, said capture body comprises an active phase based on nickel oxide particles with a size of less than or equal to 15 nm, said active phase not comprising other metal elements of Group VIb or Group VIII, which are deposited on a porous support chosen from the group consisting of aluminas, silica, silicas/aluminas, or also titanium or magnesium oxides, used alone or as a mixture with alumina or silica/alumina.

Abstract: Provided is a zeolite-based adsorbent in the form of agglomerates, where the adsorbent having a tortuosity factor, calculated from the pore distribution determined by mercury intrusion porosimetry, of greater than 1 and less than 3. The adsorbent also has a porosity as determined by mercury intrusion porosimetry of between 25% and 35%. The adsorbent is useful in the field of separations in particular in a process for separating para-xylene from aromatic hydrocarbon isomer fractions containing 8 carbon atoms.

Abstract: A process reducing sulfides R1-S-R2, with R1 and R2 methyl or ethyl, in a gasoline containing diolefins, mono-olefins and sulphur: A) contacting gasoline in mixture with a light gasoline cut recycled from C) and hydrogen in a reactor with catalyst A at least one VIb metal and at least one non noble group VIII metal on a support, producing effluent having diolefins and sulfides R1-S-R2, with R1 and R2 methyl or ethyl radicals lower than that that of the starting gasoline; B) the effluent from A) is sent into a fractionating column separating at the top a light gasoline cut containing hydrocarbons having less than 6 carbon atoms per molecule and at the bottom a heavy gasoline cut containing hydrocarbons having 6 and more than 6 carbon atoms per molecule; C) recycling a part of the light gasoline from B) to the reactor of A) with a recycle ratio 0.1 to 0.7.

Abstract: The present invention relates to zeolitic adsorbents based on small agglomerated crystals of zeolite X comprising barium, combining optimum properties in terms of selectivity and of mechanical strength. These adsorbents have applications in the separation of fractions of aromatic C8 isomers and in particular xylenes, in the separation of substituted toluene isomers, such as nitrotoluene, diethyltoluene or toluenediamine, in the separation of cresols and in the separation of polyhydric alcohols, such as sugars.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a zeolitic granular material having a connected zeolitic structure across the entire volume thereof, having high mechanical resistance to crushing in the bed, and optimised material transfer in the macro-mesopores. The invention also relates to the method for preparing said zeolitic granular material, as well as to the use thereof as an adsorbent material in co-current or counter-current liquid phase separation methods, typically in a simulated mobile bed.

Abstract: A process for the desulphurization of a gasoline cut containing sulphur-containing compounds, olefins and diolefins, involving (a) fractionating the gasoline in order to recover a light gasoline cut LCN and a first heavy gasoline cut HCN; (b) desulphurization of the first heavy gasoline cut HCN; (c) partially condensing desulphurization effluent obtained from b) in a manner such as to produce a gaseous phase of hydrogen and H2S and a liquid hydrocarbon phase HCN of dissolved H2S; (d) separating the liquid hydrocarbon phase HCN into an intermediate gasoline cut MCN and a second heavy gasoline cut HHCN; (e) carrying out a second desulphurization of the second heavy gasoline cut HHCN.

Abstract: The present invention relates to zeolitic adsorbents based on agglomerated crystals of FAU zeolite containing barium and/or potassium, with large external surface area, combining optimum properties in terms of selectivity and mechanical strength. These adsorbents find applications in the separation of cuts of C8-aromatic isomers and notably of xylenes, in the separation of isomers of substituted toluene such as nitrotoluene, diethyltoluene, toluenediamine, in the separation of cresols, and in the separation of polyhydric alcohols such as sugars.

Abstract: Process for separating xylenes starting from a feed comprising cuts of isomers of aromatic hydrocarbons containing 8 carbon atoms, in a simulated moving bed, by selective adsorption of a xylene isomer in the presence of a desorbent, by means of particles of agglomerated zeolitic adsorbent based on zeolite crystals with a number-average diameter less than or equal to 1.2 ?m, wherein the number-average diameter of said particles of adsorbent is between 150 ?m and 500 ?m and the mechanical strength measured by the Shell method series SMS1471-74 adapted for agglomerates with a size below 500 ?m is greater than or equal to 2 MPa.

Abstract: A process for the treatment of a gasoline containing sulphur-containing compounds, olefins and diolefins, comprising the following steps: a) fractionating the gasoline in a manner such as to recover at least one intermediate gasoline cut, MCN, comprising hydrocarbons and wherein the temperature difference (?T) between the 5% and 95% by weight distillation points is less than 60° C.; b) desulphurizing the intermediate gasoline cut MCN alone and in the presence of a hydrodesulphurization catalyst and hydrogen in a manner such as to produce a partially desulphurized intermediate gasoline cut MCN; and c) fractionating, in a splitter, the at least partially desulphurized intermediate gasoline cut MCN which has not undergone catalytic treatment subsequent to step b), in a manner such as to recover an intermediate gasoline with low sulphur and mercaptans contents from the column head and a cut of hydrocarbons containing sulphur-containing compounds including mercaptans from the column bottom.

Abstract: A process for the treatment of a gasoline containing sulphur-containing compounds, olefins and diolefins: a) fractionating the gasoline into at least: a light gasoline cut LCN; a primary intermediate gasoline cut, MCN; and a primary heavy gasoline cut HHCN; b) desulphurizing the primary intermediate gasoline cut MCN alone producing an at least partially desulphurized primary intermediate gasoline cut MCN; c) desulphurizing the primary heavy gasoline cut HHCN alone producing an at least partially desulphurized primary heavy gasoline cut HHCN; d) sending, as a mixture, the partially desulphurized primary intermediate gasoline cut MCN and the partially desulphurized primary heavy gasoline cut HHCN to a separation column separating a gaseous stream containing hydrogen and H2S, a secondary intermediate gasoline cut MCN with low sulphur and mercaptans contents and a secondary heavy gasoline cut HHCN containing sulphur-containing compounds including recombinant mercaptans; e) desulphurizing the secondary heavy g

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hydrotreating catalyst comprising at least one group VIB metal, at least one group VIII metal and an alumina support having a gamma alumina content greater than 50% by weight and less than 100% by weight with respect to the weight of the support, said support having a specific surface area comprised between 25 and 150 m2/g.

Abstract: The present invention describes a process for separating xylenes in simulated counter-current (simulated moving bed, SMB) for the treatment of feeds including oxygen-containing aromatic impurities of the phenol type and/or derivatives thereof, by controlled injection of water in the ingoing streams.

Abstract: Provided is a zeolite-based adsorbent in the form of agglomerates, where the adsorbent having a tortuosity factor, calculated from the pore distribution determined by mercury intrusion porosimetry, of greater than 1 and less than 3. The adsorbent also has a porosity as determined by mercury intrusion porosimetry of between 25% and 35%. The adsorbent is useful in the field of separations in particular in a process for separating para-xylene from aromatic hydrocarbon isomer fractions containing 8 carbon atoms.