Mobil Oil Corporation

Occidental Research Corporation

Chang-Kuei Lee

Stephen Harold Brown

Jeffrey C Trewella

Tai-Sheng Chou

Grant G Karsner

Timothy L Hilbert

Donald Milstein

Byung C Choi

Madhava Malladi

Paul P Durand

Thomas R Kiliany, Jr

This invention is a process for the upgrading of distillate feeds. A batch of supported hydroprocessing catalyst is placed in a reaction zone, which is usually a fixed bed reactor. The hydroprocessing catalyst comprises an effective amount of a noble metal or metals and has a specific activity. Both low aromatic diesel and jet fuel may be produced in separate blocks over the same catalyst batch, using different feeds and often different conditions. The activity of the catalyst is restored each time the feed is switched. When production is switched from jet fuel to low aromatics diesel, activity may be regained more quickly by holding the catalyst at a higher temperature than the reaction temperature for a specific period of time prior to dropping the temperature to the reaction temperature. Switching from one feed to the other may continue for about one year before the catalyst batch is changed. A dual catalyst system may alternatively be employed. In this case a hydroprocessing catalyst batch comprising an effective amount of at least one base metal is used in combination with the catalyst comprising an effective amount of at least one noble metal catalyst. The feed contacts the catalyst comprising the base metal before it contacts the catalyst comprising a noble metal. In a dual catalyst system, the feeds may be switched for about two years over the two catalyst batches before fresh catalyst is necessary.

Distillate upgrading process

A solvent extract obtained from a conventional hydrocarbon oil solvent extraction process, e.g., one employing furfural as the extraction solvent, is cooled to a temperature providing, following a secondary decantation of the cooled extract, a pseudo raffinate containing most of the non-aromatics and a pseudo extract possessing a hydro-aromatic content of H.sub.alpha hydrogen of at least 20 percent of the total hydrogen content. The pseudo extract is ideally suited as a hydrogen-donor for a variety of refinery operations such as visbreaking. The pseudo raffinate is suitable as a co-feed for such catalytic cracking operations as fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) and thermofor catalytic cracking (TCC) and can be recycled to the extraction unit to produce more lube oil.

Upgrading solvent extracts by double decantation and use of pseudo

An improved Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Process wherein vaporization of oil feed is optimized prior to catalytic cracking. A draft tube mixer placed in the lower reactor riser splits the hot regenerated catalyst flow into two streams resulting in improved riser mixing of catalyst and oil.

Feed mixing technique for fluidized catalytic cracking of hydrocarbon oil

This invention discloses a process and apparatus for pyrolyzing particulate coal by heating with a particulate solid heating media in a transport reactor. The invention tends to dampen fluctuations in the flow of heating media upstream of the pyrolysis zone, and by so doing forms a substantially continuous and substantially uniform annular column of heating media flowing downwardly along the inside diameter of the reactor. The invention is particularly useful for bituminous or agglomerative type coals.

Pyrolysis process and apparatus

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