Idemitsu Kosan Company, Limited

Jgc Catalysts & Chemicals Ltd.

Kazuhiro Inamura

Akira Iino

Mitsunori Watabe

Hiroshi Iida

Yoshihiro Okazaki

Yuichi Yamahata

Yoji Sunagawa

Shinya Eura

Nobuyuki Takahashi

Yuji Shirahama

Provided is a catalyst for hydrocracking of heavy oil which is excellent in both functions of cracking activity and desulfurization activity with respect to heavy oil by striking a balance between the cracking activity and desulfurization activity and which includes a support including a crystalline aluminosilicate and a porous inorganic oxide excluding the crystalline aluminosilicate, with an active metal being supported on the support, in which (a) the support includes the crystalline aluminosilicate in an amount of 45% by mass or greater and smaller than 60% by mass and the porous inorganic oxide excluding the crystalline aluminosilicate in an amount of greater than 40% by mass and 55% by mass or smaller, based on the sum of an amount of the crystalline aluminosilicate and an amount of the porous inorganic oxide excluding the crystalline aluminosilicate, (b) the active metal is at least one kind of metal selected from metals belonging to Groups 6, 8, 9, and 10 of the Periodic Table, and (c) the catalyst for hydrocracking of heavy oil has a distribution of pores in which an entire pore volume of pores defined as pores having a diameter of 5 to 1000 nm is 0.40 dm/kg or greater, and a volume of intermediate mesopores having a diameter of 10 nm or larger and smaller than 20 nm accounts for 60% or greater of the entire pore volume.

Hydrocracking catalyst for heavy oil and method for hydrotreating heavy oil using same

The present invention relates to an iron-containing crystalline aluminosilicate, a hydrocracking catalyst comprising the same and a process for hydrocracking utilizing the catalyst, and employing the catalyst in hydrocracking for heavy oil results in easy production of great quality kerosene and gas oil having low contents of sulfur and nitrogen as well as increased production thereof.

Iron-containing crystalline aluminosilicate, hydrocracking catalyst comprising the aluminosilicate, and method of hydrocracking with the catalyst

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Kazuhiro Inamura