Abstract: An improved process for preparing a stabilized lubricating oil resistant to oxidation and sludge formation upon exposure to a highly oxidative environment, such as when metals are present and an overbased component is present in the lubricating oil, is provided. In the present process wherein a lubricating oil stock to be upgraded is contacted with elemental sulfur in the presence of a catalyst material selected from the group consisting of alumina, aluminosilicate, a metal of Groups II-A, II-B, VI-B or VIII of the Periodic Table of Elements, an oxide of a metal of Groups II-A, II-B, VI-B or VIII, a sulfide of a metal of Groups II-A, II-B, VI-B or VIII, clay, silica, silica combined with an oxide of a metal of Groups II-A, III-A, IV-B or V-B, and combinations thereof, at relatively low temperatures of from about 150.degree. to about 225.degree.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 8, 1976
Date of Patent:
May 23, 1978
Assignee:
Mobil Oil Corporation
Inventors:
Robert F. Bridger, Costandi A. Audeh, El-Ahmadi I. Heiba
Abstract: A method of regenerating used particulate contaminant-removing material, such as iron oxide or iron sulfide, that has been used to remove a contaminant, such as arsenic, from a synthetic hydrocarbonaceous feed and effect deposition of the contaminant within the material, characterized by a multi-step process as follows: (1) the used, or spent, contaminant-removing material is intimately contacted with a sulfur-containing material, such as hydrogen sulfide or sulfur, in an inert atmosphere of non-oxidizing fluid and at elevated temperature; (2) the contaminant deposited in the contaminant-removing material is reacted with the sulfur in the sulfur-containing material at the elevated temperature and the resulting sulfides of the contaminant; for example, arsenic sulfides; are converted to gaseous form to separate them from the regenerated contaminant-removing material; and (3) the sulfides of the contaminant are condensed and oxidized to form the oxides of the contaminant; for example, arsenic oxides.
Abstract: A method for removing at least one impurity selected from the group consisting of arsenic and selenium from a synthetic crude oil or a fraction thereof by employing iron or cobalt, nickel, oxides in a coprecipitated solid matrix with aluminum oxide, in a hydrogen atmosphere, at a temperature of at least 300.degree. F, and in the substantial absence of water, whereby at least one of the arsenic and selenium is removed by way of iron or cobalt, oxide, or sulfide. Also disclosed is a method of preparation and use of a particularly preferred structural matrix in accordance with one embodiment of this invention.
Abstract: A method is disclosed for the treatment of a petroleum charge stock which comprises the treatment of said petroleum charge stock with an aqueous solution containing a metal phthalocyanine compound and a compound selected from the group consisting of an alkali metal sulfide and an alkali metal sulfite.
Abstract: A hydrocarbon oil, particularly a heavy hydrocarbon oil, containing vanadium, nickel, sulfur and asphaltenes is brought into contact with red mud at an elevated temperature in the presence of hydrogen. The treatment removes vanadium, nickel and asphaltenes from oil in high yields.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 14, 1974
Date of Patent:
February 3, 1976
Assignee:
Agency of Industrial Science & Technology
Inventors:
Shigeru Ueda, Yoshinori Nakata, Shinichi Yokoyama, Naoyuki Todo, Yuji Yoshida, Tadao Ishii, Gen Takeya