Indian Oil Corporation Limited

Alex Cheru Pulikottil

Mohan Prabhu Kuvettu

Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar

Brijesh Kumar

Arumugam Velayutham Karthikeyani

Madhusudan Sau

Biswanath Sarkar

Kochappilly Ouseph Xavier

Velusamy Chidambaram

Kumaresan Loganathan

Sanjiv Kumar Mazumdar

Gurpreet Singh Kapur

Santanam Rajagopal

Biswapriya Das

Ravinder Kumar Malhotra

Deepak Kumar Tuli

Ram Mohan Thakur

Rakesh Sarin

Balaiah Swamy

Pankaj Kumar Kasliwal

Jayaraj Christopher

Mahesh Kadgaonkar

Mani Karthikeyan

Ramasubramanian Kanthasamy

Ram Prakash Verma

Manoranjan Santra

Shiba Prasad Choudhury

Murugan Balasundaram

Sarvesh Kumar

Alok Sharma

Vineeth Venu Nath

Manoj Kumar

Hima Bindu Doosa

Ujjwal Manna

Kuvettu Mohan Prabhu

Brij Mohan Bansal

Hillol Biswas

Dharmendra Kumar Yadav

Vibhav Pandey

Kanthasamy Ramasubramanian

Vinay Kumar Chaudhury

Mahendra Pratap Indian Oil Corporation Limited Singh

Wadhava Ram Kalsi

The present invention provides a catalyst composition for the production of olefins from lighter alkanes by oxidative dehydrogenation route and methods of making the dehydrogenation catalyst composites.

Catalyst composition for oxidative dehydrogenation of alkane

A process for preparation of catalyst to produce ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD) from high refractory sulfur feedstock. The catalyst composition comprises a modified alumina carrier, impregnated by metal of group VIB is in the range of 15-25% and metal of group VIIIB is in the range of 1-5% as oxides. The catalyst prepared in the present invention produces highly dispersed MoS2 active sites on the modified carrier. The catalyst produces ultra low sulfur diesel (ULSD) along with improved cetane, density reduction and endpoint reduction.

Process for preparing a hydro-treating catalyst composition for producing ultra-low sulfur diesel

The present invention relates to a catalyst and a method for preparation of that catalyst for the selective hydrogenation of diolefins present in gasoline streams along with the shifting of lighter sulfur compounds in the feed stock to heavier sulfur compound by the reaction with olefinic compounds.

Method for preparing catalyst for selective hydrogenation of diolefins

This invention relates to an additive capable of increasing the gasoline octane (by 2-3 units) with minimum loss of gasoline. More specifically, the present invention discloses a fluid catalytic cracking additive composition capable of enhancing gasoline octane, said composition comprising 5-50 wt. % zeolite component, 0-15 wt % alumina, 5-20 wt % colloidal silica, 10-60 wt % kaolin clay, 5-15 wt % phosphate, and 0.1 to 5.0 wt. % of bivalent metal selected from Group-IIA or Group-IB, wherein the zeolite component comprises of medium pore pentasil zeolite in an amount of 1 to 50 wt. % and said zeolite consists of one or more MFI topology zeolite having SiO/AlOmole ratio in the range of 10-280. The present invention also discloses a process for preparation of the additive.

Fluid catalytic cracking additive composition for enhancing gasoline octane barrel and a process of preparation thereof

The present invention relates to a method of making of hydrocarbon soluble metal composition comprising of one or more metals of group VIB of the periodic table, wherein the metal having 4+ oxidation state predominantly forms highly active metal sulfide catalyst for hydro-conversion of heavy oil feedstocks in liquid phase. More particularly, present invention relates to a hydrocarbon soluble metal composition comprising of reaction products of a metal source, a lipophilic phenolic acid, a surfactant and an organophosphorus compound. The present invention also provides a one-pot process for preparation of the hydrocarbon soluble metal composition comprising reacting a metal source, a lipophilic phenolic acid, a surfactant, an organophosphorus compound and water to obtain a reaction product and drying the reaction product to obtain the hydrocarbon soluble metal composition.

Method of making hydrocarbon soluble metal compositions

The present invention relates to catalyst product, a method of making a catalyst and its use in fluid catalytic conversion process. In particular, this invention relates to a process for the preparation of CO-combustion promoter microspheres, comprising a large crystallite low surface area alumina; a composite binder comprising nano-crystallite alumina and dispersant; and platinum or palladium or both. The large crystallite low surface area alumina is bound together by the composite binder in the said particulate composition.

Nano-crystallite binder based CO combustion promoter

The present invention provides a catalyst product comprising of (a) porous acidic clay material and (b) binder and matrix to shape the catalyst to either microspheres, pellet, tablet, extrudate and ring and suitable for enhancing the crack-ability of heavy feed material derived from atmospheric and vacuum distillation bottoms; FCC bottoms, coker bottoms and hydrocracker bottoms. The invention particularly relates to a catalyst cum heat supply product suitable for thermal coking process either in a batch mode or continuous coking process.

Catalyst for enhancing liquid yield in thermal coking process

The present invention provides a catalyst composition comprising rare earth exchanged USY zeolite (REUSY); pentasil zeolite; phosphorous compound; clay, silica, alumina, and spinel to enhance the catalytic activity and selectivity for light olefins in FCC operation conditions. The present invention also provides a process for the preparation of Light olefin enhancing catalyst composition with high propylene yield and coke selectivity.

Catalyst composition for enhancing yield of olefins in fluid catalytic cracking process (FCC)

The present invention relates to a catalyst composition and a process for preparing thereof, wherein the catalyst composition is specifically active for hydro-conversion of LCO involving mainly the partial ring opening of multi-ring aromatics leading to the production of petrochemical feedstock. The catalyst composition comprises of a carrier comprising ultra-stable Y zeolite and binder alumina, group VIB and VIIIB metal species, and organic additives. The carrier is impregnated with metal solution to form active sites of WSslabs of dimensions in the range of 35-45 &#x212b;.

Composition and process thereof for catalyst for hydro-conversion of LCO involving partial ring opening of poly-aromatics

The present invention relates to an improved CuAlOspinel based catalyst additive composition having bi-modal pore size for improving gasoline sulfur removal activity by maintaining high gasoline selectivity and maintaining research octane number (RON) while cracking heavier hydrocarbon feedstocks in the fluid catalytic cracking unit. More particularly, present invention relates to a gasoline sulfur reduction (GSR) additive comprising copper aluminate spinel, acidic alumina matrix; and clay, wherein the additive having bimodal pore distribution. Present invention also relates to a process for preparing the gasoline sulfur reduction (GSR) additive.

Catalyst additive composition for reduction of sulfur in gasoline

The current invention provides a hydrotreating catalyst comprising of metals of at least one each from Group VIB, preferably molybdenum and Group VIII, preferably nickel, of the periodic table supported on alumina modified with small amounts of modifying elements well dispersed on the surface so as to retain the physico-chemical characteristics of the support and result in high performance for hydrodesulphurization catalyst, and a commercially viable process for producing such a catalyst. The present invention also discloses a commercially viable method for modifying alumina in the powder form without affecting the porous structure of the support obtained.

Hydrotreating catalyst and process for preparing the same

The present invention relates to a catalyst product for cracking of heavy hydrocarbon feed stocks predominantly in to light olefins and processes for preparing the catalyst. More specifically the present invention relates to a process of preparing Fluidic Catalytic Cracking (FCC) catalyst additive composition. The FCC catalyst additive composition of the present invention is a LPG selective catalyst particles comprising a medium pore zeolite bonded with clay-phosphate-silica-alumina binder. The catalyst of the present invention exhibits improved selectivity towards high value components like propylene and gasoline and suppressing low value components like dry gas and bottoms.

Process and composition for preparation of cracking catalyst suitable for enhancing LPG

The present invention relates to a fluid catalytic cracking additive composition for cracking of heavy hydrocarbon feed stocks and process for preparing the additive. The additive is suitable for enhancing yields of light olefins such as propylene, isobutylene, LPG and reduces the bottom yields. The invention specifically relates to a fluid catalytic cracking additive composition comprising a pentasil zeolite, zeolites having pore size in a range of 5.4-7.7 &#x212b;, alumina, colloidal silica, kaolin clay, and phosphate, wherein the zeolites having pore size in the range of 5.4-7.7 &#x212b; is present in an amount of 1 to 10 wt % with respect to the total amount of the pentasil zeolite and zeolite having the pore size in the range of 5.4-7.7 &#x212b;.

Composition and process for preparation of cracking catalyst suitable for enhancing yields of light olefins

This present invention relates to oil-soluble metal compositions of metals and a method for its preparation. The composition finds application in catalysis as catalysts precursors or additives for in situ generation of nano dispersed metal/metal sulfide clusters for heavy oil hydroconversion and in the area of lubrication as friction modifiers.

Hydrocarbon soluble metal composition and a method of making it thereof

The present invention relates to a Cracking Catalyst composition for cracking of heavy hydrocarbon feed stocks and process for preparing the catalyst. The catalyst is prepared by incorporating 1-10 wt % phosphate treated USY zeolite in which phosphate is present in the range of 10 to 50 wt % on the basis of phosphated zeolite, in a mixture of 10-50 wt % dispersible alumina, 0-30 wt % non-dispersal alumina, 5-30 wt % colloidal silica, 15-50 wt % clay and 5-15 wt % phosphate.

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