Nippon Oil Company

Research Association for Petroleum Alternative Development

Takeshi Ishii

Masaru Ushio

Hajime Okazaki

Toru Morita

Yasuyuki Oishi

Kazuya Nasuno

Tohru Morita

Takashi Shoda

Provided is a process for producing gasoline having a high octane number or aromatic hydrocarbons by contacting a feed stock containing at least one aliphatic hydrocarbon having 1 to 12 carbon atoms with a catalyst at an elevated temperature said catalyst comprising a zeolite and a fluorine compound, and optionally Group Ib, IIb, IIIa, VI, VIIb or VIII metal in the Periodic Table.

Hydrocarbon conversion process

A process for catalytic reaction of heavy oils and a particulate solid medium, which comprises withdrawing a part or the whole of the used medium from the reactor, separating the withdrawn particles into the particles which have been rendered magnetic by the deposition thereon of nickel, vanadium, iron and copper originally contained in the heavy oils, and non-magnetic particles, using a high gradient magnetic separator which is so designed that a ferromagnetic matrix is placed in a uniform high magnetic field, and returning the non-magnetic particles of the medium into the reactor for re-use.

Process for catalytic reaction of heavy oils

A process for fluid catalytic cracking of a starting oil selected from the group consisting of a distillation residual oil, a solvent deasphalted oil derived therefrom and a hydrodesulfurized oil derived therefrom, which comprises withdrawing a part of catalyst particles circulating through a fluid catalytic cracking unit, sending the withdrawn catalyst particles by means of a carrier fluid selected from the group consisting of air, nitrogen, steam and the mixtures thereof at a rate of 0.01 to 100 meters/second in a particle concentration of 0.01 to 500 g/liter to a high gradient magnetic separator in which a ferromagnetic matrix is placed in a uniform high magnetic field to generate a high magnetic gradient around the matrix, thereby separating the withdrawn catalyst particles into a group of particles rendered magnetic by the deposition of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of nickel, vanadium, iron and copper which are contained in the starting oil and a group of non-magnetic particles; and returning the non-magnetic particles to the fluid catalytic cracking unit for re-use.

Process for fluid catalytic cracking of distillation residual oils

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Kawasaki, Japan

Takeshi Ishii