Shell Oil Comapny

Jack Thomas Veal

Ruth Mary Kowaleski

John Bernard Rodden

Michael Norris Treybig

Charles Lee Meyer

Richard Joseph Horvath

Kevin Arnold Andersen

Raymond Tom Fong

Coley Jerald Williams

There is provided a process to reclaim metals from catalysts, said process comprising collecting one or more catalyst containing at least one metal sulfide; leaching the catalyst in an atmospheric leach step; separating the leached slurry into a first liquid stream and a first solid; leaching the first solid in a pressure leach process; separating the second leached slurry into a second liquid stream and a second solid; collecting the first and second liquid streams; oxidizing the combined liquid stream; cooling the oxidized liquid stream; adjusting the pH of the oxidized liquid stream; contacting the cooled oxidized liquid stream with an organic solvent containing an extractant; stripping the soluble metal species from the organic phase; adjusting the pH of the aqueous phase to selectively precipitate at least one metal as a metal salt; and separating the metal salt from the aqueous phase.

Process to recover metals from spent catalyst

A selenium-containing aqueous stream may be used as a quenching water stream and optionally a cutting water stream in a delayed coking process to effectuate the removal of selenium from the selenium-containing aqueous stream resulting in the formation of a selenium-coke product. In addition, selenium may be concentrated in selenium-containing stripped sour water streams by recycling the stream in one or more hydroprocessing units and one or more sour water stripper units and subsequently removed by using a portion of the selenium-containing stripped sour water stream as a quenching water stream and optionally a cutting water stream in a delayed coking process.

Process for the removal of selenium from selenium-containing aqueous

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Sugar Land, TX, United States of America

Jack Thomas Veal