Jx Nippon Oil Energy Corporation

Cosmo Oil Co., Ltd.

Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corporation

Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd.

Inpex Corporation

Nippon Steel & Sumikin Engineering Co., Ltd.

Yoshiyuki Nagayasu

Kazuaki Hayasaka

Hideki Ono

Marie Iwama

Koshi Takahama

Mayumi Yokoi

Masahiro Taguchi

Hideshi Iki

Takaya Matsumoto

Tomohisa Hirano

Eri Kosaka

A method for producing a base oil for lubricant oils comprising: a first step of hydrocracking a stock oil having a content percentage of a heavy matter of 80% by mass or more so that a crack per mass of the heavy matter is 20 to 85% by mass, to obtain a hydrocracked oil comprising the heavy matter and a hydrocracked product thereof, a second step of fractionating the hydrocracked oil into a base oil fraction comprising the hydrocracked product and a heavy fraction comprising the heavy matter and being heavier than the base oil fraction, respectively, a third step of isomerization dewaxing the base oil fraction from the fractionation in the second step to obtain a dewaxed oil, wherein the heavy fraction from the fractionation in the second step is returned to the first step as a part of the stock oil.

Method for producing base oil for lubricant oils

A Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst containing 10 to 30% by mass, as a metal atom, of metallic cobalt and/or cobalt oxide, based on the mass of the catalyst, supported on a carrier containing silica, in which the carrier has an average pore diameter of 8 to 25 nm and the metallic cobalt and/or cobalt oxide has an average crystallite diameter of not less than the average pore diameter of the carrier and less than 35 nm.

Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst, manufacturing method therefor, and hydrocarbon manufacturing method

A method for producing a hydroisomerization catalyst includes a first step of preparing a support precursor by heating a mixture containing an ion-exchanged zeolite and a binder, the ion-exchanged zeolite being prepared by ion-exchanging an organic template-containing zeolite which contains an organic template and has a one-dimensional pore structure including a 10-membered ring in a solution containing ammonium ions and/or protons, at a temperature of 250 to 350&#xb0; C. under Natmosphere, and a second step of preparing a hydroisomerization catalyst, which is prepared by calcining a catalyst precursor, the catalyst precursor being prepared based on the support precursor containing a platinum salt and/or a palladium salt, at a temperature of 350 to 400&#xb0; C. in an atmosphere containing molecular oxygen, the hydroisomerization catalyst containing a support which includes a zeolite and carries platinum and/or palladium.

ZSM-22 zeolite, hydroisomerization catalyst and method for producing same, and method for producing hydrocarbon

A process for producing a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst according to the present invention comprises a step of calcining a carrier precursor containing silica calcined at a temperature Tand a zirconium compound at a temperature Tto obtain a carrier; and a step of calcining a catalyst precursor containing the carrier and a cobalt compound and/or a ruthenium compound at a temperature T, wherein the content of the zirconium compound in the carrier precursor is 0.01 to 7% by mass in terms of zirconium oxide based on the total mass of the catalyst, and T, T, and Tsatisfy conditions represented by expressions (1) to (3):&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)250&#xb0; C.&#x2266;&#x2266;450&#xb0; C.&#x2003;&#x2003;(2)250&#xb0; C.&#x2266;&#x2266;450&#xb0; C.&#x2003;&#x2003;(3).

Fischer-tropsch synthesis catalyst, method for producing same, and method for producing hydrocarbon

A method for producing a hydroisomerization catalyst according to the present invention includes: a first step of preparing a catalyst to be treated, which contains a support having a one-dimensional porous structure including a 10-membered ring and at least one metal selected from the group consisting of: group 8 to 10 metals of the periodic table, Mo, and W supported on the hydroisomerization catalyst; and a second step of producing a hydroisomerization catalyst having a carbon content of 0.4 to 2.5% by mass by subjecting the catalyst to be treated to a coking treatment by means of a carbon-containing compound.

Method for producing hydroisomerization catalyst and method for producing lubricant base oil

A method for producing a lubricant base oil that has a predetermined boiling point range, the method including a first step of bringing a feedstock containing a first hydrocarbon oil having a boiling point in the above boiling point range and a second hydrocarbon oil having a lower boiling point than the boiling point range into contact with a hydroisomerization catalyst, wherein the catalyst contains a support that includes a zeolite having a one-dimensional porous structure including a 10-membered ring and a binder, and platinum and/or palladium supported on the support.

Method for producing lubricant base oil

A method for producing a lubricant base oil which comprises a first step of carrying out isomerization dewaxing by contacting, in the presence of hydrogen, a hydrocarbon oil containing normal paraffin having a boiling point of 360&#xb0; C. or higher, with a hydroisomerization catalyst under conditions such that a cracking rate defined in the following formula (1) is 10 mass % or less, and a second step of carrying out the above isomerization dewaxing by temporarily switching the above conditions to conditions such that the cracking rate is 13 mass % or more.Cracking rate (mass %)=[()/]&#xd7;100&#x2003;&#x2003;(1)wherein Crepresents the mass ratio of a fraction having a boiling point of 360&#xb0; C. or higher in the above hydrocarbon oil, and Crepresents the mass ratio of the fraction having a boiling point of 360&#xb0; C. or higher in the above hydrocarbon oil after the isomerization dewaxing.

Method for producing lubricating-oil base oil

The hydroisomerization catalyst of the present invention is a catalyst used for hydroisomerization of a hydrocarbon, including a support including a calcined zeolite modified with at least one metal selected from the group consisting of Na, K, Cs, Mg, Ca, Ba, and K, and having a thermal history that includes heating at 350&#xb0; C. or more, and at least one inorganic oxide selected from the group consisting of alumina, silica, titania, boria, zirconia, magnesia, ceria, zinc oxide, phosphorus oxide, and a composite oxide containing a combination of at least two or more of these oxides; and at least one metal supported on the support and selected from the group consisting of elements belonging to Groups 8 to 10 of the periodic table, molybdenum and tungsten.

Hydroisomerization catalyst, process for producing the same, method of dewaxing hydrocarbon oil, process for producing hydrocarbon, and process for producing lube base oil

A method for producing a lubricant base oil, the method comprising a first step of fractionating, from a hydrocarbon oil containing a base oil fraction and a heavy fraction that is heavier than the base oil fraction, the base oil fraction and the heavy fraction, and a second step of obtaining a dewaxed oil by isomerization and dewaxing of the base oil fraction fractionated in the first step, wherein a hydrocracked oil obtained by hydrocracking the heavy fraction fractionated in the first step is returned to the first step.

A Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction catalyst includes a catalyst support containing a silica and zirconium oxide in an amount of 0.5 to 14% by mass based on the mass of the catalyst support, and cobalt metal and a cobalt oxide supported on the catalyst support in an amount equivalent to 10 to 40% by mass of tricobalt tetroxide based on the mass of the catalyst, wherein the degree of reduction of the cobalt atoms is within a range from 75 to 93%, and the amount of hydrogen gas adsorption per unit mass of the catalyst at 100&#xb0; C. is within a range from 0.40 to 1.0 ml/g.

Activated fischer-tropsch synthesis reaction catalyst and method for producing hydrocarbons

A method for producing a lubricant base oil includes contacting feedstock containing normal paraffins having not less than 20 carbon atoms with a first catalyst in the presence of molecular hydrogen to obtain a first produced oil, and contacting the first produced oil with a second catalyst in the presence of molecular hydrogen to obtain a second produced oil. The first catalyst includes a first carrier in which a fraction of an amount of NHto be desorbed at 300 to 800&#xb0; C. based on a total amount of NHto be desorbed is 80 to 90% in temperature-programmed desorption of NH, a first metal selected from metals of Group VI in the periodic table carried on the first carrier, and a second metal selected from metals of Group VIII to Group X in the periodic table carried on the first carrier.

A method for starting up a bubble column slurry bed reactor of the present invention includes, when restarting operation of a bubble column slurry bed reactor for producing hydrocarbons by the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction, feeding a hydroprocessed oil produced in the bubble column slurry bed reactor and hydroprocessed that contains 40% by mass or more of paraffin hydrocarbons having carbon number of 21 or more and that has a peroxide value of 1 ppm or less, to the bubble column slurry bed reactor.

Method for starting up bubble-column-type slurry-bed reactor, start-up solvent, and method for producing hydrocarbon oil

A method for producing a regenerated Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst obtained by regenerating a spent catalyst used in a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction, comprising a steaming step of bringing the above spent catalyst into contact with a mixed gas comprising 1 to 30% by volume of steam and an inert gas at a pressure of atmospheric pressure to 5 MPa and a temperature of 150 to 350&#xb0; C., the above spent catalyst being a spent catalyst in which cobalt and/or ruthenium is supported on a carrier comprising silica with an average pore diameter measured by a nitrogen adsorption method of 4 to 25 nm, and of which activity represented by an initial carbon monoxide conversion is 40 to 95%, based on the activity of a corresponding unused catalyst.

Method for manufacturing a regenerated Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst, and hydrocarbon manufacturing method

A method for producing an activated Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst comprising a hydrogen reduction step of subjecting a catalyst comprising 3 parts by mass to 50 parts by mass, as a metal atom, of a cobalt compound and/or a ruthenium compound, based on 100 parts by mass of a carrier containing a porous inorganic oxide, supported on the carrier, to reduction in a gas containing molecular hydrogen at a temperature of 300&#xb0; C. to 600&#xb0; C.; and a CO reduction step of subjecting the catalyst to reduction in a gas containing carbon monoxide and containing no molecular hydrogen at a temperature of 200&#xb0; C. to 400&#xb0; C.

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Yoshiyuki Nagayasu