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Brian Murray Wood

Deng-Yang Jan

Peter J Van Opdorp

A hydrotreating process is presented for both dewaxing the diesel fraction and reducing the aromatic content of kerosene fraction of a distillate boiling range feed stream. The feed stream is flashed to generate vapor and liquid phase streams. The portion which comprises most of the heavy diesel is passed into a dewaxing zone. The vapor-phase stream, preferably rich in kerosene and light diesel, is used to quench the effluent of the dewaxing zone before it is passed into a downstream aromatics hydrogenation zone. Depending on the composition of the feed to the process, a second flashing step performed in the presence of added hydrogen may be employed to produce the feed to the dewaxing zone. PNA's may be hydrogenated prior to recycling to a hydrocracking zone.

Distillate dewaxing process

A hydrocracking catalyst and a process using it are described. The catalyst comprises a dealuminated zeolite bound into a highly porous amorphous support matrix. The catalyst is characterized by its low piece density and a bimodal pore distribution, with the unfinished catalyst having a sizeable amount of macropores having diameters between 5,000 and 9,000 Angstroms. A high amount of mesopores between about 56 and about 297 Angstroms is also desired. The presence of pores between 300 to 500 Angstroms and greater than 10,000 Angstroms in diameter is minimized.

Hydrocracking process using a controlled porosity catalyst

A process for the production of alkylaromatic hydrocarbons uses a high water content in an alkylation zone and a low water content in a transalkylation zone to improve yields improve process yields and catalyst life. An aromatic feed and an acyclic feed are first passed through the alkylation reaction zone that operates at a high water content. A separator receives the effluent from the alkylation reaction zone and removes water from a sidecut of unreacted aromatic feed. The sidecut of aromatic feed and a stream of polyalkylated aromatics are contacted in the transalkylation zone. The differing water content improves the operation of both the alkylation zone and the transalkylation zone.

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