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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 13, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Glen P Hamner, deceased, late of Baton Rouge, LA (US);
Willard H Sawyer, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
Heather A Boucher, Point Edward, CA;
Assignee:
Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Florham Park, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C10G / ; C10G / ; C10G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
208 27 ; 208 46 ; 208 39 ; 208 88 ; 208112 ; 208950 ; 585736 ; 585737 ; 585749 ; 502230 ; 502231 ; 502334 ;
Abstract
A process for selectively producing middle distillate fuel products from paraffin waxes such as slack wax and Fischer-Tropsch wax by hydroisomerizing the wax to convert 60-95 weight percent per pass of the 700.degree. F..sup.+ fraction contained in said wax. The catalyst employed is a fluorided Group VIII metal-on-alumina catalyst where the fluoride within the catalyst is present predominately as aluminum fluoride hydroxide hydrate. The preferred Group VIII metal is platinum.