Mobil Oil Corporation

Mobil Oil Coproration

Robert T Thomson

Quang N Le

Albin Huss, Jr

Mohsen N Harandi

Wieslaw J Roth

Charles T Kresge

Grant H Yokomizo

Robert A Ware

Nick Allen Collins

Arthur A Chin

Hartley Owen

Stuart Damon Hellring

Ralph M Dessau

Samuel A Tabak

Paul H Schipper

Joseph A Herbst

Garry W Kirker

Frederick J Krambeck

Jonathan E Child

Sergei Yurchak

Kathleen M Keville

Francis P Ragonese

A process for production of alkyl tertiary alkyl ethers in C.sub.4 + hydrocarbon streams rich in isoolefins, typically containing catalyst deactivating amounts of dienes and/or compounds containing heteroatoms. The process is especially advantageous in extending the cycle length for the zeolite catalyzed etherification of isoolefins in C.sub.4 + FCC gasoline by reducing catalyst aging. It has been discovered that if hydrogen is cofed with the alkanol and C.sub.4 + isoolefin rich feedstreams to an etherification reaction catalyzed by acidic zeolite wherein the zeolite has been impregnated with a noble metal the rate of catalyst aging or deactivation is substantially lowered. The process is especially effective, i.e., catalyst aging is particularly reduced, when hydrogen is cofed to an etherification reaction using acidic zeolite Beta catalyst containing palladium.

Process for hydroisomerization and etherification of isoalkenes

A benzene-rich gasoline stream is alkylated with higher olefins in contact with a fluid bed of shape selective zeolite catalyst to produce a gasoline product stream reduced in benzene content wherein the high octane value alkylaromatics formed by benzene alkylation are of low carbon number, essentially C10-. Concurrently, a portion of olefins in the gasoline stream are converted to gasoline boiling range hydrocarbons and the sulfur content of the gasoline feedstream is lowered. Besides enhancing the octane value of the feedstream, the process results in a lower Reid vapor pressure and lower sulfur content.

Benzene reduction in gasoline by alkylation with higher olefins

A process is disclosed for the production of alkyl tertiary alkyl ethers in C.sub.4 + hydrocarbon streams rich in isoolefins, typically containing catalyst deactivating amounts of dienes and/or compounds containing heteroatoms. The process is especially advantageous in extending the cycle length for the zeolite catalyzed etherification of isoolefins in C.sub.4 + FCC gasoline by reducing catalyst aging. It has been discovered that if hydrogen is cofed with the alkanol and C.sub.4 + isoolefin rich feedstreams to an etherification reaction catalyzed by acidic zeolite wherein the zeolite has been impregnated with a noble metal the rate of catalyst aging or deactivation is substantially lowered. The process is especially effective, i.e., catalyst aging is particularly reduced, when hydrogen is cofed to an etherification reaction using acidic zeolite Beta catalyst containing palladium.

Process for the production of tertiary alkyl ether rich FCC gasoline

The transfer of hydrogen from a paraffin to an olefin is provided. This reaction may be carried out in the presence of a catalyst, such as MCM-36. Especially when the paraffin reactant is an isoparaffin, the olefin produced from the reacted isoparaffin may react with unreacted isoparaffin to also produce an alkylate product.

Hydrogen transfer and isoparaffin-olefin alkylation process

A process for upgrading low octane naphthas to produce gasoline products with low levels of benzene and aromatics while retaining a high pool octane uses a paraffinic naphtha reformer feed which is dehexanized to provide a C.sub.7 + fraction which is fed to the reformer and a C.sub.6 fraction which is fed together with the C.sub.6 fraction from the reformer effluent to a catalytic upgrading step where the low octane components from the naphtha and the benzene from the reformate are converted to a low benzene, high octane gasoline by alkylation of the benzene and other aromatics present in the reformate. The process has the advantage that benzene make in the reformer is reduced by the partial by-passing of the C.sub.6 benzene precursors around the reformer; in addition, improved benzene alkylation results from the presence of additional light olefins generated by the cracking of paraffins from the paraffinic naphtha. the reaction is preferably carried out in a turbulent fluidized bed reaction zone.

Naphtha upgrading

The transfer of hydrogen from a paraffin to an olefin is carried out in the presence of, as catalyst, MCM-36. Especially when the paraffin reactant is an isoparaffin, the olefin produced from the reacted isoparaffin may react with unreacted isoparaffin to also produce an alkylate product.

Hydrogen transfer process

A process for demetallizing metals contaminated FCC catalyst in an FCC regenerator. A metals getter additive, with higher settling velocity, is added to the regenerator, to remove metals from FCC catalyst by solid-solid interaction. The FCC catalyst forms a light, discrete, dense phase fluidized bed on top of a fluidized bed of additive. FCC catalyst is recycled to the cracking reactor from the top fluidized bed, while additive can be withdrawn from the lower fluidized bed for disposal or for metals recovery and recycle. Additive can be optimized for metals removal and will not dilute the cracking catalyst in the FCC reactor.

Demetallation in FCC regenerator

A method for upgrading an aromatics-containing charge composition boiling in the gasoline boiling range comprises i) contacting the charge composition with a nitrating agent under nitrating conditions to form a product comprising nitrated aromatics; ii) hydrogenating a feed containing the product of i) under conditions sufficient to substantially reduce the nitro group of the nitrated aromatics so as to form a product comprising aromatic amines, water and heavy amines; and iii) removing the water and heavy amines from the product of step ii) to provide a gasoline boiling range product of an octane rating greater than the charge composition.

Gasoline upgrading by aromatics amination

A selective alkene upgrading process wherein a mixture of intermediate molecular weight monoalkenes comprising at least one linear alkene component and at least one tertiary alkene component is contacted under selective olefin interconversion conditions with medium pore, shape selective acid catalyst, such as MCM-22 aluminosilicate zeolite, thereby converting at a major amount of linear intermediate alkene to lower alkene while leaving tertiary alkene substantially unconverted. In the preferred embodiments, the process interconversion conditions comprise reaction temperature in the range of about 300.degree. C. to 550.degree. C., pressure in the range of 100 kpa to 1000 kPa, thereby selectively converting at least 60% (net) of linear intermediate alkene while converting less than 20% (net) of branched alkene. By etherifying at least a portion of the unconverted tertiary alkene, an oxygenated fuel having enhanced octane rating is obtained. Cracked lower olefins may be recovered for upgrading.

Selective cracking and etherification of olefins

Long chain alkyl aromatic compounds are prepared by alkylating an alkylatable aromatic compound with a long chain alkylating agent in the presence of catalyst comprising a synthetic porous MCM-36 material.

Process for preparing long chain alkylaromatic compounds

Short chain alkyl aromatic compounds are prepared by alkylating an alkylatable aromatic compound with a short chain alkylating agent in the presence of catalyst comprising a synthetic porous MCM-36 material.

Process for preparing short chain alkylaromatic compounds

A process for naphtha cracking employing new synthetic catalyst of ultra-large pore crystalline material. The new crystalline material exhibits unusually large sorption capacity demonstrated by its benzene adsorption capacity of greater than about 15 grams benzene/100 grams at 50 torr and 25.degree. C., a hexagonal electron diffraction pattern that can be indexed with a d.sub.100 value greater than about 18 Angstrom Units and a hexagonal arrangement of uniformly sized pores with a maximum perpendicular cross section of at least about 13 Angstrom units. An improved cracking reaction is provided for catalytic conversion of hydrocarbon feedstock which comprises contacting the feedstock under catalytic conversion conditions with acid metallosilicate solid catalyst having the structure of MCM-41 with hexagonal honeycomb lattice structure consisting essentially of uniform pores in the range of about 20 to 100 Angstroms. The cracking reaction is very selective, especially when conducted at temperature of about 425.degree. to 650.degree. C.

Catalytic process for hydrocarbon cracking using synthetic mesoporous

Olefin is etherified with alcohol to provide an ether or mixture of ethers employing a catalyst comprising MCM-36.

Process for preparing ethers

Olefins are converted to lower alkene hydrocarbon products, e.g., propene, butenes, and isoalkenes with zeolite MCM-22 catalyst. This catalytic conversion is particularly useful in the selective separation of linear olefins in mixed hydrocarbon streams, employing MCM-22 catalyst to convert these straight-chain unsaturated components to lighter products, particularly, C.sub.3 -C.sub.4 olefins. One potential application of this selective separation is in the removal of linear olefins from FCC gasoline.

Olefin upgrading by selective catalysis

In the process of olefin disproportionation, a feedstock containing predominatly mono-olefin the feedstock is charged at elevated temperature into a catalytic conversion zone in contact with mesoporous acid olefin conversion catalyst under selective olefin interconversion conditions. The improvement is characterized by a mesoporous acid metallosilicate crystalline catalyst material having Bronsted acid sites in a hexagonal lattice structure, said catalyst material having substantially uniform pores in hexagonal arrangement with a pore size of about 20 to 100 Angstroms units. In the preferred embodiments the olefinic feedstock is reacted for less than 10 seconds in contact with MCM-41 mesoporous metallosilicate catalyst under partial reaction conditions sufficient to provide increased yield of C4 alkene having a ratio of isobutene to normal butenes greater than equilibrium.

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Robert T Thomson