Mobil Oil Corporation

Stephen S Wong

Quang N Le

Nai Y Chen

Rene B LaPierre

Joosup Shim

William E Garwood

Robert A Ware

Tracy J Huang

Randall D Partridge

Clinton R Kennedy

Ying-Yen P Tsao

Charles T Kresge

Sharon B McCullen

Tai-Sheng Chou

Brent A Aufdembrink

Grant G Karsner

Richard J Quann

Melcon G Melconian

James R Katzer

Samuel A Tabak

David O Marler

Albin Huss, Jr

Daria N Lissy

Sergei Yurchak

Robert P Absil

Arthur A Chin

Robert W Bortz

Ernest W Valyocsik

Werner O Haag

Mae K Rubin

John P McWilliams

Frederick J Krambeck

Henry H Ashjian

James H Beech, Jr

Hans J Schoennagel

Sowmithri Krishnamurthy

William S Borghard

James A Stoos

Diane V Jorgensen

Rene B La Pierre

Robert Bruce Calvert

Randall D Patridge

Monique A Schobert

Y Y Tsao

Nitrogenous compounds especially bases such as ammonia vapor are used to control the operation of a hydrocracker or catalytic dewaxer. Catalyst activity and selectivity may be controlled by addition of the base to the feed, for example, to control the balance between isomerization and hydrocracking in an operation using a zeolite beta catalyst. Runaway conditions may be controlled by the addition of nitrogenous compounds to regulate the temperature profile within the reactor.

Method for controlling hydrocracking and isomerization dewaxing operations

There is provided a process and a catalyst for hydrocracking hydrocarbons, such as gas oils. The catalyst comprises a hydrogenating metal and small crystal size zeolite Y. The zeolite Y may have a crystal size of less than one micron. Examples of hydrogenating metals include nickel and tungsten.

Hydrocracking process using small crystal size zeolite Y

Hexenes are produced when propylene is catalytically converted under moderate conditions over chosen small pore zeolite catalysts having small 10-membered ring openings. These chosen catalysts are ZSM-22, ZSM-23, ZSM-35, and ZSM-48. They are unexpectedly effective to dimerize a substantially ethylene-free propylene-rich stream to form mainly hexene isomers, a major portion of which isomers are tert-isohexenes, without making a substantial amount of trimer or other byproducts. The feed is preferably at least 60% by weight, the remainder being alkanes, mainly propane, and the olefins being limited to less than 5 mol % ethylene and less than 5 mol %, preferably less than 2 mol %, of C.sub.4.sup.=+ (mainly butenes). Because propane in the feed is essentially unaffected, plural reactors in series may be used to avoid recycling unreacted propylene with propane to the dimerization reactor. The reactors thus allow using a mixed propylene-propane stream without need for a superfractionator to make the desired separation. Etherification is effective because of the high tert-isohexene content of the dimer product. Non-tertiary hexenes from the etherification reactor may be recycled to the dimerization reactor to benefit from the ability of the chosen catalyst to isomerize the non-tert-hexenes to tert-isohexenes on a substantially mol for mol basis without making other products typically in equilibrium in the isomerized effluent of other zeolite catalysts such as ZSM-5.

Process for dimerizing propylene and for converting hexenes into ethers

Method for controlling hydrocracking and isomerization dewaxing

Hydrocracking catalyst and process using small crystal size zeolite Y

A blended mineral oil lubricant is made having a higher viscosity index than predicted by calculating the viscosity index from an ASTM standard method designated D 341-87 or by calculating the average of the actual VI based on the proportion of each component of the blend. The lubricant is treated with a peroxide compound, preferably an organic peroxide such as di-tertiary butyl peroxide to increase the viscosity index. The treated lubricant is blended with a lubricant of lower viscosity index to achieve a blended lubricant having an enhanced viscosity index. The lubricant charge stock and blending component can be a wax-derived lubricant fraction or a conventional light neutral or heavy neutral mineral oil.

Process for making a blended lubricant

Turbine oils are produced from a distillate lube fraction by hydrocracking to remove aromatics, catalytically dewaxing, hydrofinishing then treating with an organic peroxide, such as ditertiary butyl peroxide (DTBP) to increase viscosity and reduce cloud point.

Turbine oil production

A process has been discovered for the conversion of C.sub.5 -C.sub.7 olefinic hydrocarbons, such as those contained in FCC light naphtha, to iso-butene-rich and isoamylene-rich streams in an integrated process for the production of MTBE and TAME. The process involves the initial separation of the isoamylene-rich C.sub.5 -fraction of the feedstream which is converted to TAME. The C.sub.6 -C.sub.7 fraction plus unreacted C.sub.5 's are converted by olefin interconversion with medium pore zeolite catalyst into an isobutylene and isoamylene-rich stream which is then used as feedstream for etherification to MTBE and TAME.

Process for the production of tertiary alkytl ethers from FCC light

There is provided a method for reducing the pour point of an alkyl aromatic lube base stock by hydroisomerizing alkyl side groups on alkyl aromatic compounds. The alkyl aromatic, compounds may be alkylated naphthalenes. The hydroisomerization reaction may take place over a catalyst comprising zeolite beta and platinum.

Hydroisomerization process for pour point reduction of long chain alkyl

A process for production of ether by hydration and etherification of olefinic feedstock containing at least one lower alkene by contacting the olefinic feedstock and water in a plurality of catalytic reaction zones containing porous solid metal oxide acidic olefin hydration and etherification catalyst under olefin hydration and etherification conditions. Improved operation is achieved by recovering a first effluent stream from at least one fixed bed hydration zone, splitting the first effluent stream into a product recovery stream and a plurality of recycle streams, and passing at least a portion of cooled recycle streams comprising olefin, alcohol and ether in effluent stream component proportions for quenching at least one fixed bed reaction zone to control temperature of hot effluent from a preceding reaction zone.

Reactor quenching for catalytic olefin hydration in ether production

Aromatic hydrocarbons are alkylated with relatively long chain alkylating agents, e.g., C.sub.8 + olefins, at mole ratio of aromatic to alkylating agent of not greater than about 5 in the presence of, as catalyst, a Lewis acid-promoted amorphous, porous inorganic oxide such as silica to provide long chain alkyl aromatic products which are useful, inter alia, as lubricating oil stocks.

Process for preparing long chain alkyl aromatic compounds employing

The thermal stability of poly alpha-olefin (PAO) lubricant basestocks are improved by reacting an aromatic compound with the alpha-olefin oligomer. The PAO materials are prepared by oligomerization of olefins such as 1-decene in the presence of a Lewis acid oligomerization catalyst. The resulting lubricant basestock product exhibits high viscosity, viscosity index and low pour point in addition to the unique enhancement in thermal stability. The reaction between the PAO and the aromatic is carried out in the presence of a solid, cyrstalline alkylation catalyst identified by a specific X-ray diffraction pattern. The preferred catalyst for this purpose is the material known as MCM-22.

Stabilization of polyalpha-olefins

There is provided a sulfated layered titanium oxide catalyst. Relatively long chain alkyl aromatic compounds are prepared by alkylating an alkylatable aromatic compound with a relatively long chain alkylating agent under alkylation reaction conditions in the presence of this sulfated layered material as alkylation catalyst. The layered material contains titanium oxide in the layers and oxide pillars separating the layers. The alkylation activity of the catalyst is increased by including sulfate ions in the layered material. This increased alkylation activity may be obtained by contacting the layered material with an aqueous solution of a sulfate compound such as sulfuric acid.

Sulfated layered titanium oxide catalysts in process for preparing long

Nitrogenous compounds especially bases such as amines are used to control the operation of a hydrocracker. Catalyst activity and selectivity may be controlled by addition of the base to the feed, for example, to control the balance between isomerization and conversion in an operation using a zeolite beta catalyst. Runaway conditions may be controlled by the addition of nitrogenous compounds and if they are added at intermediate points along the length of the reactor, the temperature profile within the reactor can be effectively regulated.

Method for controlling hydrocracking operations

Relatively long chain alkyl aromatic compounds are prepared by alkylating an alkylatable aromatic compound with a relatively long chain alkylating agent under alkylation reaction conditions in the presence of a layered material as an alkylation catalyst. The layered material contains titanate in the layers and oxide pillars separating the layers. The layers also contain vacancies and/or metals incorporated therein. The degree of alkylation is a function of the interplanar d-spacing of the pillared material, which is, in turn a function of the chain length of the swelling agent used to prepare the layered material.

Process for preparing long chain alkyl aromatic compounds

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