Phillips Petroleum Company

Peter J Hart

James Scinta

Hydrocarbon values are recovered from low organic carbon content materials via treatment with hydrogen and extraction with supercritical solvents.

Recovery of hydrocarbon values from low organic carbon content

A catalyst of the perovskite-type ABO.sub.3 crystal structure with from about 1 up to about 20 percent of the B cation sites occupied by rhodium ions and the remainder of the B cation sites occupied by ions consisting essentially of cobalt and the A cation sites occupied by lanthanide ions of atomic number 57 to 71 and ions of at least 1 metal of Groups IA, IIA or IVA of the Periodic Table having ionic radii of about 0.9 A to 1.65 A, and proportioned so that no more than 50 percent of the cobalt ions are tetravalent and the remaining cobalt ions are trivalent. The above-described catalyst on a refractory support. A method for producing hydrogen by reacting hydrocarbon in the presence of a catalyst as described above, either with or without a refractory support, by partial oxidation or steam reforming.

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Bartlesville, OK, United States of America

Peter J Hart