Indian Oil Corporation Limited

Kumaresan Loganathan

Arumugam Velayutham Karthikeyani

Alex Cheru Pulikottil

Sankara Sri Venkata Ramakumar

Madhusudan Sau

Balaiah Swamy

Gurpreet Singh Kapur

Sanjiv Kumar Mazumdar

Mohan Prabhu Kuvettu

Ram Mohan Thakur

Biswanath Sarkar

Velusamy Chidambaram

Vineeth Venu Nath

Hima Bindu Doosa

Brijesh Kumar

Santanam Rajagopal

Saravanan Subramani

Pankaj Kumar Kasliwal

Jayaraj Christopher

Mahesh Kadgaonkar

Vibhav Pandey

Bineesh Kanattukara Vijayan

The present invention discloses process and apparatus for the production of light olefins from their respective alkanes by catalytic dehydrogenation, where in the dehydrogenation reaction is carried out in multiple semi-continuously operated fluidized bed isothermal reactors, connected to a common regenerator and wherein the process is carried out in a sequence of steps in each cycle i.e., entry of hot regenerated catalyst, pre-treatment with reducing gas, dehydrogenation reaction, stripping, transfer of catalyst to regenerator and catalyst regeneration. Process cycle in each reactor starts at different times such that the catalyst inventory in the regenerator is invariable with time.

Fluidized bed dehydrogenation process for light olefin production

The present invention provides a catalyst composition for the production of olefins from lighter alkanes by oxidative dehydrogenation route and methods of making the dehydrogenation catalyst composites.

Catalyst composition for oxidative dehydrogenation of alkane

This invention relates to an additive capable of increasing the gasoline octane (by 2-3 units) with minimum loss of gasoline. More specifically, the present invention discloses a fluid catalytic cracking additive composition capable of enhancing gasoline octane, said composition comprising 5-50 wt. % zeolite component, 0-15 wt % alumina, 5-20 wt % colloidal silica, 10-60 wt % kaolin clay, 5-15 wt % phosphate, and 0.1 to 5.0 wt. % of bivalent metal selected from Group-IIA or Group-IB, wherein the zeolite component comprises of medium pore pentasil zeolite in an amount of 1 to 50 wt. % and said zeolite consists of one or more MFI topology zeolite having SiO/AlOmole ratio in the range of 10-280. The present invention also discloses a process for preparation of the additive.

Fluid catalytic cracking additive composition for enhancing gasoline octane barrel and a process of preparation thereof

The present invention relates to catalyst product, a method of making a catalyst and its use in fluid catalytic conversion process. In particular, this invention relates to a process for the preparation of CO-combustion promoter microspheres, comprising a large crystallite low surface area alumina; a composite binder comprising nano-crystallite alumina and dispersant; and platinum or palladium or both. The large crystallite low surface area alumina is bound together by the composite binder in the said particulate composition.

Nano-crystallite binder based CO combustion promoter

The present invention provides a catalyst composition comprising rare earth exchanged USY zeolite (REUSY); pentasil zeolite; phosphorous compound; clay, silica, alumina, and spinel to enhance the catalytic activity and selectivity for light olefins in FCC operation conditions. The present invention also provides a process for the preparation of Light olefin enhancing catalyst composition with high propylene yield and coke selectivity.

Catalyst composition for enhancing yield of olefins in fluid catalytic cracking process (FCC)

The present invention relates to an improved CuAlOspinel based catalyst additive composition having bi-modal pore size for improving gasoline sulfur removal activity by maintaining high gasoline selectivity and maintaining research octane number (RON) while cracking heavier hydrocarbon feedstocks in the fluid catalytic cracking unit. More particularly, present invention relates to a gasoline sulfur reduction (GSR) additive comprising copper aluminate spinel, acidic alumina matrix; and clay, wherein the additive having bimodal pore distribution. Present invention also relates to a process for preparing the gasoline sulfur reduction (GSR) additive.

Catalyst additive composition for reduction of sulfur in gasoline

The invention relates to a CO oxidation promoter additive and a method of its preparation. The CO oxidation promoter additive is having improved apparent bulk density and attrition properties for use in hydrocarbon conversion during fluid catalytic cracking. The CO oxidation promoter additive has a better CO to COconversion.

CO oxidation promoter and a process for the preparation thereof

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