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Nancy J Flint

George J Antos

Tai-Hsiang Chao

Arthur A Foutsitzis

Solveg S Kjell

Superior tolerance to catalyst coking is obtained with a catalytic composite comprising a gallium component and a crystalline aluminosilicate incorporated with a phorphorus containing alumina. A five-fold reduction in the coke content of the spent catalyst of the instant invention is observed which is directly attributable to the phosphorus containing alumina. A novel method of preparing this catalyst is presented, along with a novel process for the dehydrocyclodimerization of C.sub.2 -C.sub.5 aliphatic hydrocarbons.

Phosphorus containing alumina catalyst for the production of aromatics

A process able to separate ortho-xylene from the other C.sub.8 aromatics. In the process the ortho-xylene-containing feed mixture is contacted with an X-type zeolite having silver cations at exchangeable cationic sites which has been subjected to a reduction step. The ortho-xylene is selectively adsorbed onto the adsorbent. The feed is then removed from the absorbent and the ortho-xylene recovered by desorption with para-diethylbenzene. The process is particularly amenable to the simulated moving bed flow scheme.

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Nancy J Flint