Indian Oil Corporation Limited

Balaiah Swamy

Arumugam Velayutham Karthikeyani

Biswanath Sarkar

Mohan Prabhu Kuvettu

Brijesh Kumar

Santanam Rajagopal

Alex Cheru Pulikottil

Kumaresan Loganathan

Velusamy Chidambaram

Pankaj Kumar Kasliwal

Mahesh Kadgaonkar

Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar

Madhusudan Sau

Ravinder Kumar Malhotra

Sanjiv Kumar Mazumdar

Biswapriya Das

Ram Mohan Thakur

Jayaraj Christopher

Manish Agarwal

Gurpreet Singh Kapur

Vineeth Venu Nath

Kamlesh Gupta

Shiba Prasad Choudhury

Mitra Bhanu Patel

Mani Karthikeyan

Kuvettu Mohan Prabhu

Bandaru Venkata Hariprasadgupta

Ganga Shankar Mishra

Brijesh Kumar Verma

V Chidambaram

P S Choudhury

S Rajagopal

Vibhav Pandey

Kumar Brijesh

Prabhu K Mohan

A V Karthikeyani

AV Karthikeyani

Bhanu Patel Mitra

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 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 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 invention relates to a CO oxidation promoter additive and a method of its preparation. The CO oxidation promoter additive is having improved apparent bulk density and attrition properties for use in hydrocarbon conversion during fluid catalytic cracking. The CO oxidation promoter additive has a better CO to COconversion.

CO oxidation promoter and a process for the preparation thereof

The present invention relates to a composition of attrition resistant attrition resistant catalyst particularly for FCC catalyst additives such as ZSM-5, bottom cracking additive/residue upgradation additive and GSR additive comprising aluminum phosphate binder wherein said binder comprising of 1.5 to 2.9 moles equivalent of monobasic acid for each mole of mono-aluminum phosphate (MAP). Further, the aluminum phosphate binder is added to the catalyst additive to ensure effective binding of catalyst as well as preserving catalyst activity with high selectivity towards light olefins including LPG.

Composition and a process for preparation of attrition resistant cracking catalyst suitable for enhancing light olefins

The present invention relates to attrition resistant hydrocarbon cracking catalyst additive composition comprising aluminum phosphate binder for cracking of hydrocarbon molecules to produce light olefins and process of preparation thereof. The present invention further relates to the process of preparation of the aluminum phosphate binder wherein said binder is incorporated into the ZSM-5 additive composition to enhance its attrition resistance property as well as enhance selectivity and activity of additive composition for production of light olefins such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).

Composition and process for preparation of attrition resistant additive suitable for cracking hydrocarbon feed

The present invention provides a catalyst composition for use in a catalytic cracking process, said catalyst composition comprises 3.5 to 15.5% of pentasil zeolite, 9 to 40% of ultra-stable Y (USY) or rare earth exchanged USY (REUSY) zeolite, 3.5 to 15% of large pore active matrix based bottom up gradation component and 0.3 to 3% of a metal trap component, the percentage being based on weight of the catalyst composition. The present invention also provides a process for preparing the said catalyst composition and a catalytic cracking process comprising contacting the said catalyst composition with a feedstock.

Catalyst composition for fluid catalytic cracking, process for preparing the same and use thereof

The present invention relates to a catalyst additive composition suitable for fluid cracking, riser cracking and fixed bed cracking with reduction in bottom and coke, wherein the aluminosilicate and silica-alumina is generated in situ from added clay and silica. The present invention is also directed towards the preparation of the said catalyst additive composition. The invention also discloses a process for cracking of heavy hydrocarbons using the said catalyst additive.

Catalyst additive composition for catalytic cracking and a process of preparation thereof

The present invention provides a process and a system for coking and simultaneous upgrading of a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock. More particularly the present invention relates to a process of cracking heavy hydrocarbon feedstock employing high heat carrier, incorporated with weak acid sites for improving the liquid yield and reducing coke yield. The feedstock is vaporized and brought in contact with a heat carrier material to produce a product stream and separating the product stream from the particulate heat carrier, regeneration of the particulate heat carrier to the extent of 10-30% and collecting a gaseous and liquid product from the product stream.

Process and a system for enhancing liquid yield of heavy hydrocarbon feedstock

A composition of a value added RFCC catalyst and a process of preparation of a composition for a dual function additive catalyst from a spent catalyst are disclosed. The value added spent FCC catalyst offers improved performance, options such as either employing as an additive for passivation of both vanadium and nickel and enhancing catalytic activity, for initial start-up or make-up for attrition losses. The value addition process does not harm any of physical properties of starting material with respect to ABD, attrition index, surface area and particle size distribution. Value added catalyst can be used in a range from 1-99 wt % in fluid catalytic cracking process in which, feeds may have higher metals and carbon.

Value added spent fluid catalytic cracking catalyst composition and a process for preparation thereof

The present invention relates a metal passivator additive comprising: a rare earth component; alumina; clay; colloidal silica; and a zeolite having high silica to alumina ratio. The present invention also relates to a process for preparing a metal passivator additive, said process comprising: preparing a rare earth slurry by mixing rare earth component with water; obtaining an alumina gel by treating alumina slurry with an acid, wherein the alumina slurry is prepared by mixing alumina and water; mixing the alumina gel and the rare earth slurry to obtain a slurry mixture; adding a colloidal silica to the slurry mixture; preparing a clay slurry by mixing clay and a dispersant; combining the clay slurry and the slurry mixture to obtain a rare earth-binder-filler slurry; obtaining an additive precursor slurry by mixing a zeolite having high silica to alumina ratio to the rare earth-binder-filler slurry; spray-drying the additive precursor slurry to obtain a spray-dried product; and calcining the spray-dried product to obtain the metal passivator additive.

Metal passivator additive and process for preparing

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