Mobil Oil Corporation

Rohm and Haas Company

Dow Global Technolgoies LLC

Exxonmobil Corporation

Arthur A Chin

Robert A Ware

Mohsen N Harandi

David Craig Molzahn

Michael S Sarli

Dean M Millar

Robert Butterick

Nathan Tait Allen

Stephen S Wong

Amos A Avidan

Nick Allen Collins

Robert T Thomson

Paul H Schipper

Charles T Kresge

Ivy Dawn Johnson

Frederick J Krambeck

Jeffrey C Trewella

Jonathan E Child

Ajit V Sapre

Sergei Yurchak

Gary J Green

Stephen Gerard Maroldo

Roland Bernard Saeger

Lloyd Steven White

Francis Lipiecki

James A Stoos

John Hiroshi Yamamoto

Samuel J November

James S Warwick

Suzanne Linehan

Karen M Millane

Terry R Waldron

Bryan M Knickerbocker

Puja Jain

A process for production of a borohydride compound M(BH). The process has three steps. The first step combines a compound of formula (RO)M with aluminum, hydrogen and a metallic catalyst containing at least one metal selected from the group consisting of titanium, zirconium, hafnium, niobium, vanadium, tantalum and iron to produce a compound of formula M(AlHOR), wherein Ris phenyl or phenyl substituted by at least one alkyl or alkoxy group; M is an alkali metal, Be or Mg; and y is one or two; wherein the catalyst is present at a level of at least 200 ppm based on weight of aluminum. The second step combines the compound of formula M(AlHOR)with a borate, boroxine or borazine compound to produce M(BH)and a byproduct mixture containing alkali metal and aluminum aryloxides. The third step separates M(BH)from the byproduct mixture.

Process for production of a borohydride compound

A process for production of a metal hydride compound MH, wherein x is one or two and M is an alkali metal, Be or Mg. The process comprises combining a compound of formula (RO)M with aluminum, hydrogen and at least one metal selected from among titanium, zirconium, hafnium, niobium, vanadium, tantalum and iron to produce a compound of formula MH. Ris phenyl or phenyl substituted by at least one alkyl or alkoxy group. A mole ratio of aluminum to (RO)M is from 0.1:1 to 1:1. The catalyst is present at a level of at least 200 ppm based on weight of aluminum.

Process for production of a metal hydride

A compound of formula M(AlHOR), wherein Ris phenyl substituted by at least one of: (i) an alkoxy group having from one to six carbon atoms; and (ii) an alkyl group having from three to twelve carbon atoms; wherein M is an alkali metal, Be or Mg; and y is one or two.

Process for production of an aluminum hydride compound

A process for production of a borohydride compound. The process comprises combining a compound comprising boron and oxygen with an adduct of alane.

A process for production of a borohydride compound. The process comprises the steps of: (a) combining a boron-containing salt, at least one of a metal and its hydride; wherein the metal is Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Al, Ga, Si or a transition metal; and a solvent in which the borohydride compound is soluble; (b) grinding a mixture formed in step (a) to form the borohydride compound; and (c) separating a solution comprising the borohydride compound.

Permselective separation of aromatic hydrocarbons from non-aromatic hydrocarbons in a feed stream is accomplished using improved asymmetric membranes. The preferred membranes are fashioned from a polyimide and conditioned with a lubricating oil. Feed streams containing a mixture of aromatic and non-aromatic hydrocarbons are contacted with the dense active layer side of the polyimide membrane under a pressure and temperature sufficient to selectively permeate the desired aromatic hydrocarbon.

Recovery of aromatic hydrocarbons using lubricating oil conditioned membranes

A benzene-rich gasoline stream is alkylated with higher olefins in contact with a fluid bed of shape selective zeolite catalyst to produce a gasoline product stream reduced in benzene content wherein the high octane value alkylaromatics formed by benzene alkylation are of low carbon number, essentially C10-. Concurrently, a portion of olefins in the gasoline stream are converted to gasoline boiling range hydrocarbons and the sulfur content of the gasoline feedstream is lowered. Besides enhancing the octane value of the feedstream, the process results in a lower Reid vapor pressure and lower sulfur content.

Benzene reduction in gasoline by alkylation with higher olefins

Hexenes are produced when propylene is catalytically converted under moderate conditions over chosen small pore zeolite catalysts having small 10-membered ring openings. These chosen catalysts are ZSM-22, ZSM-23, ZSM-35, and ZSM-48. They are unexpectedly effective to dimerize a substantially ethylene-free propylene-rich stream to form mainly hexene isomers, a major portion of which isomers are tert-isohexenes, without making a substantial amount of trimer or other byproducts. The feed is preferably at least 60% by weight, the remainder being alkanes, mainly propane, and the olefins being limited to less than 5 mol % ethylene and less than 5 mol %, preferably less than 2 mol %, of C.sub.4.sup.=+ (mainly butenes). Because propane in the feed is essentially unaffected, plural reactors in series may be used to avoid recycling unreacted propylene with propane to the dimerization reactor. The reactors thus allow using a mixed propylene-propane stream without need for a superfractionator to make the desired separation. Etherification is effective because of the high tert-isohexene content of the dimer product. Non-tertiary hexenes from the etherification reactor may be recycled to the dimerization reactor to benefit from the ability of the chosen catalyst to isomerize the non-tert-hexenes to tert-isohexenes on a substantially mol for mol basis without making other products typically in equilibrium in the isomerized effluent of other zeolite catalysts such as ZSM-5.

Process for dimerizing propylene and for converting hexenes into ethers

A process is disclosed for producing alkyl tertiary alkyl ether such as TAME from alkanol and hydrocarbon feedstock containing linear olefins, iso-olefins, linear alkanes and iso-alkanes such as C5 streams from FCC. The process selectively etherifies iso-olefins in a plural stage etherification zone whose linear olefin-containing effluent is treated by distillation to remove iso-alkanes, and alkanol before passing to a skeletal isomerization zone using constrained intermediate pore size zeolite catalyst such as ZSM-22, ZSM-23, or ZSM-35, which converts linear olefins to iso-olefins which are cycled for etherification. The use of distillation to remove iso-alkanes and alkanol reduces mass flow to the etherification process and minimizes skeletal isomerization catalyst poisoning by alkanol, without resort to water extraction processes which require subsequent treatment of the isomerization zone feed to remove water.

Process for the conversion of C5 linear olefins to tertiary alkyl ethers

A process for upgrading low octane naphthas to produce gasoline products with low levels of benzene and aromatics while retaining a high pool octane uses a paraffinic naphtha reformer feed which is dehexanized to provide a C.sub.7 + fraction which is fed to the reformer and a C.sub.6 fraction which is fed together with the C.sub.6 fraction from the reformer effluent to a catalytic upgrading step where the low octane components from the naphtha and the benzene from the reformate are converted to a low benzene, high octane gasoline by alkylation of the benzene and other aromatics present in the reformate. The process has the advantage that benzene make in the reformer is reduced by the partial by-passing of the C.sub.6 benzene precursors around the reformer; in addition, improved benzene alkylation results from the presence of additional light olefins generated by the cracking of paraffins from the paraffinic naphtha. the reaction is preferably carried out in a turbulent fluidized bed reaction zone.

Naphtha upgrading

A continuous process for upgrading reformate feedstock or the like to reduce benzene content and increase octane fuel rating. The improved process comprises maintaining a fluidized bed of regenerable acid solid medium pore zeolite catalyst particles in a turbulent regime reaction zone, preferably maintained with a superficial gas velocity of 0.1 to 1 meter/sec. with reformate feedstock being introduced at a bottom portion of the reaction zone at a weight hourly space velocity (WHSV) of 0.1 to 5, based on active catalyst solids; reaction zone total pressure being less than 2000 kPa. The preferred catalyst particles have an average particle size of 20 to 100 microns (.mu.), with about 10 to 25% of the catalyst particles comprising fine particles having a particle size less than 30 microns; and the preferred zeolite catalyst comprises shape selective medium pore aluminosilicate zeolite having a constraint index of 1 to 12. The benzene is reacted by contacting reformate feedstock, such as C.sub.6 distillation heart cut containing at least 70 wt % compounds having six carbon atoms, including benzene, n-hexane and isohexane, with said catalyst particles at reaction temperature of 370.degree. to 540.degree. C. and at benzene partial pressure of at least 200 kPa under reformate conversion conditions sufficient to convert at least 40% of feedstock benzene per pass, thereby producing a high octane fuel product containing less than 10 wt % C.sub.10.sup.+ components.

Fluid bed catalytic upgrading of reformate

A process has been discovered for the conversion of C.sub.5 -C.sub.7 olefinic hydrocarbons, such as those contained in FCC light naphtha, to iso-butene-rich and isoamylene-rich streams in an integrated process for the production of MTBE and TAME. The process involves the initial separation of the isoamylene-rich C.sub.5 -fraction of the feedstream which is converted to TAME. The C.sub.6 -C.sub.7 fraction plus unreacted C.sub.5 's are converted by olefin interconversion with medium pore zeolite catalyst into an isobutylene and isoamylene-rich stream which is then used as feedstream for etherification to MTBE and TAME.

Process for the production of tertiary alkytl ethers from FCC light

A catalytic cracking process especially useful for the catalytic cracking of high metals content feeds including resids in which the feed is cracked in the presence of a catalyst additive comprising an alkaline earth metal oxide and an alkaline earth metal spinel, preferably a magnesium aluminate spinel which acts as a trap for vanadium as well as an agent for reducing the content of sulfur oxides in the regenerator flue gas. The additive is used in the form of a separate additive from the cracking catalyst particles in order to keep the vanadium away from the cracking catalyst and so preserve the activity of the catalyst; in addition, use of separate additive particles permits the makeup rate for the additive to be varied relative to that of the cracking catalyst in order to deal with variations in the metals and sulfur content of the cracking feed. The additive may be separated from the cracking catalyst by physical classification so that it can be separately withdrawn from the unit for better control of the catalyst/additive ratio. The additive may be injected into the unit separate from the cracking catalyst so that it contacts the feed first to effect a preliminary demetallation.

Additive for vanadium and sulfur oxide capture in catalytic cracking

A circulating fluid bed combustion (CFBC) unit, which burns a carbon and nitrogen containing fuel to produce heat and flue gas comprising NO.sub.x, operates with reduced emissions of NO.sub.x from the flue gas by adding to the circulating fluid bed a catalytically effective amount of a DeNO.sub.x catalyst, such as bismuth oxide on a silica/alumina support. The DeNO.sub.x catalyst may circulate freely with the circulating inventory of particulates in the CFB, or can be disposed on a heavier particle which 'slips' and has an extended residence time in the combustion zone where the carbonaceous fuel is burned. A CO combustion promoter, such as Pt on silica/alumina may also be present.

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