Shell Oil Comapny

Tom Huizinga

Arend Hoek

Ian E Maxwell

Aan Hendrik Klazinga

Josepha M Seelen-Kruijssen

Willibrord A Van Erp

Hennie Schaper

Jacobus T Daamen

Jacob A Van De Griend

Gerardus L Thielemans

A process for upgrading a hydrocarbonaceous feedstock which process included separating the feedstock in the presence of hydrogen at elevated temperature and a partial hydrogen pressure greater than 50 bar into a high boiling fraction and a low boiling fraction and subjecting at least part of the low boiling fraction substantially boiling in the gasoline range to a hydrotreating step under substantially the same conditions as prevailing in the separation step, and recovering from the hydrotreating step a product substantially boiling in the gasoline range and being of improved quality.

Process for upgrading a hydrocarbonaceous feedstock and apparatus for

Process for the preparation of a zeolitic catalyst which comprises treating a zeolite of the Y-type having an alkali oxide/aluminum oxide molar ratio of at most 0.13 with a solution of a multi-valent metal salt having a cationic radius between 0.6 and 1.0 .ANG. and combining the ion-exchanged zeolite without a calcination step with a hydrogenation component of a Group VIII and/or Group VI(b) metal.

Process for the preparation of zeolitic catalysts

A process for converting hydrocarbon oils into products of low average molecular weight and lower average boiling point comprising contacting a hydrocarbon oil at elevated temperature and pressure in the presence of hydrogen with a catalyst comprising a modified Y zeolite having a unit cell size below 24.45 .ANG., a degree of crystallinity which is at least retained at increasing SiO.sub.2 /Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 molar ratios, a water adsorption capacity (at 25.degree. C. and a p/p.sub.o value of 0.2) of at least 8% by weight of modified zeolite and a pore volume of at least 0.25 ml/g wherein between 10% and 60% of the total pore volume is made up of pores having a diameter of at least 8 nm, an amorphous cracking component, a binder and at least one hydrogenation component of a Group VI metal and/or at least one hydrogenation component of a Group VIII metal. The invention also relates to catalyst compositions suitable for use in said process.

Hydrocarbon conversion process and catalysts

Composition of matter suitable as a catalyst (base) in hydroprocessing comprising a crystalline aluminosilicate zeolite and a binder wherein the crystalline aluminosilicate comprises a modified Y zeolite having a unit cell size below 24.35 .ANG., a degree of crystallinity which is at least retained at increasing SiO.sub.2 /Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 molar ratios, a water adsorption capacity (at 25.degree. C. and a p/p.sub.o value of 0.2) of at least 8% by weight of modified zeolite and a pore volume of at least 0.25 ml/g wherein between 10% and 60% of the total pore volume is made up of pores having a diameter of at least 8 nm. The invention also relates to hydroconversion catalysts and processes based on said compositions of matter.

Hydrocarbon conversion catalysts

The invention relates to a process for the preparation of a shapable dough which comprises mixing and kneading a particulate silica-alumina with water and with an alkanolamine or ammonia to obtain a mixture having a total solids content of from 25 to 60% by weight, the alkanolamine or ammonia being present in an amount of from 0.5 to 20% by weight on the total solids content of the mixture, to a shapable dough obtained by this process, to the preparation of silica-alumina extrudates therefrom and to their use as catalyst carriers in hydrocarbon conversion or hydrocarbon synthesis reactions.

Silica-alumina extrudates

A process for converting hydrocarbon oils into products of low average molecular weight and lower average boiling point comprising contacting a hydrocarbon oil at elevated temperature and pressure in the presence of hydrogen with a catalyst comprising a modified Y zeolite having a unit cell size below 24.45 .ANG., a degree of crystallinity which is at least retained at increasing SiO.sub.2 /Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 molar ratios, a water adsorption capacity (at 25.degree. C. and p/p.sub.o value of 0.2) of at least 8% by weight of modified zeolite and a pore volume of at least 0.25 ml/g wherein between 10% and 60% of the total pore volume is made up of pores having a diameter of at least 8 nm, an amorphous cracking component, a binder and at least one hydrogenation component of a Group VI metal and/or at least one hydrogenation component of a Group VIII metal. The invention also relates to catalyst compositions suitable for use in said process.

A process is disclosed for the catalytic dewaxing of a hydrocarbon oil by contacting said oil at catalytic dewaxing conditions with a catalyst comprising a crystalline aluminum silicate which has the following composition in terms of the molar ratios of the oxides:

Catalytic dewaxing with zeolite theta-1

A process of manufacture of a crystalline aluminum silicate is disclosed wherein the aqueous forming solution has augmented thereto both a pyridine compound and a quaternary ammonium hydroxide. The process derives a novel crystalline aluminum silicate composition of matter.

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