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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 1989
Filed:
Dec. 28, 1987
Nai Y Chen, Titusville, NJ (US);
William E Garwood, Haddonfield, NJ (US);
Sharon B McCullen, Newtown, PA (US);
Mobil Oil Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention includes a process and catalyst composition for paraffinic isomerization of a hydrocarbon feedstock which has a paraffin content having no more than 20 carbon atoms per molecule. The feedstock is contacted with a crystalline aluminosilicate zeolite catalyst having pore openings defined by: (1) a ratio of sorption of n-hexane to o-xylene, on a volume percent basis, of greater than about 3, which sorption is determined at a P/P.sub.o of 0.1 and at a temperature of 50.degree. C. for n-hexane and 80.degree. C. for o-xylene and (2) by the ability of selectively cracking 3-methylpentane (3MP) in preference to the doubly branched 2,3-dimethylbutane (DMB) at 1000.degree. F. and 1 atmosphere pressure from a 1/1/1 weight ratio mixture of n-hexane/3-methyl-pentane/2,3-dimethylbutane, with the ratio of rate constants k.sub.3MP/ k.sub.DMB determined at a temperature of 1000.degree. F. being in excess of about 2, e.g., ZSM-22, ZSM-23, AXM-35 and mixtures thereof, in combination with a Group VIII metal, and having a zeolite SiO.sub.2 /Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 ratio of at least about 20:1 at a temperature and pressure suitable for isomerization.