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Willie J Morrissette, Jr

Suheil F Abdo

Colleen K Costello

Ashley James Austin

Keith Adrian Holder

One exemplary embodiment can be a process for upgrading one or more hydrocarbons boiling in a naphtha range including less than about 5%, by weight, one or more alkenes and about 2,000-about 5,000 wppm, S, comprised in one or more sulfur-containing compounds, based on the weight of the one or more hydrocarbons. The process can include contacting the one or more hydrocarbons with a catalyst. The catalyst may include about 0.1-about 10%, by weight, NiO, about 5-about 50%, by weight, MoO, and about 0.1-about 10%, by weight, P, with the balance of the catalyst comprising AlO. The process can obtain an upgraded one or more hydrocarbons having a thiol concentration of no more than about 20 wppm, S, based on the sulfur comprised in one or more thiol compounds divided by the weight of the upgraded one or more hydrocarbons.

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Bolingbrook, IL, United States of America

Willie J Morrissette, Jr