Exxon Research and Engineering Company

Kenneth L Trachte

Kenneth L Riley

William E Winter, Jr

Gordon Frederick Stuntz

Thomas R Halbert

Gopal H Singhal

Keith K Aldous

Jacob Ben Angelo

Winston K Robbins

Edward Effron

David Lee Vannauker

Gophal H Singhal

Karl D Chomyn

Willian Lasko

A process for reducing the total acid number of an acidic crude by treating the crude with hydrogen treat gas in the presence of a hydrotreating catalyst wherein the treat gas also contains hydrogen sulfide.

Process for reduction of total acid number in crude oil

A process for selectively removing lower molecular weight naphthenic acids from an acidic crude by treating the crude with a small pore hydrotreating catalyst at temperatures of from about 200.degree. to 370.degree. C. Removing these lower molecular weight naphthenic acids reduces the corrosive nature of acidic crudes.

Process for selectively removing lower molecular weight naphthenic acids

A process for reducing the acidity of acidic crude oils by contacting the crude oil with a hydrotreating catalyst in the absence of hydrogen.

Catalytic reduction of acidity of crude oils in the absence of hydrogen

A process for producing ultra clean distillate and naphtha products wherein a distillate boiling range stream which contains heteroatoms and aromatics to subjected to three stage processing. The first stage is conventional hydrotreating, wherein the resulting effluent is further hydrotreated, but with a noble metal zeolite catalyst which is typically used for hydrocracking. The effluent from this second stage, which is now substantially free of heteroatoms, is passed to a third stage. This third stage is a hydrocracking stage, the severity of which will determine if the ultimate product will be a distillate or a naphtha.

Three-stage process for producing ultra-clean distillate products

A process for removing heteroatoms from a hydrocarbonaceous feedstock using a catalyst composition comprised of: about 0.005 to 5.0 wt. % noble metal, about 0.5 to 5 wt. % of at least one Group VIII metal, and about 3 to 18 wt. % of a Group VI metal, and a refractory support, wherein the noble metal is incorporated into the refractory support by use of a precursor represented by ML.sub.2 when the noble metal is Pt or Pd, and ML.sub.3, when the noble metal is Rh or Ir, where M is the noble metal and L is a ligand selected from the dithiocarbamates, dithiophosphates, dithiophosphinates, xanthates, thioxanthates, and further wherein L has organo groups having a sufficient number of carbon atoms to render the noble metal complex soluble in oil.

Hydrotreating process using noble metal supported catalysts

A catalyst composition comprised of: about 0.005 to 5.0 wt. % noble metal, about 0.5 to 5 wt. % of at least one Group VIII metal, and about 3 to 18 wt. % of a Group VI metal, and a refractory support, wherein the noble metal is incorporated into the refractory support by use of a precursor represented by ML.sub.2 when the noble metal is Pt or Pd and ML.sub.3, when the noble metal is Rh or Ir, where M is the noble metal and L is a ligand selected from the dithiocarbamates, dithiophosphates, dithiophosphinates, xanthates, thioxanthates, and further wherein L has organo groups having a sufficient number of carbon atoms to render the noble metal complex soluble in oil.

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