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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 1990
Filed:
May. 15, 1989
JGC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Liquid hydrocarbons such as natural gas liquid generally contain elementary mercury, ionized mercury and ionizable mercury compounds. All of them are requested to be removed. Further, organic mercury compounds are contained in some natural gas liquid and other liquid hydrocarbons depending on their district of production, and its removal is also necessary. It has been found that an adsorbent composition comprising multi-component metal sulfides supported on a carrier wherein one of metal component is molybdenum of 3-15 weight-% calculated as molybdenum metal in final product and another metal component is selected from the group consisting of cobalt and nickel, the atomic ratio of these to molybdenum being in the range of 0.05-0.9 can adsorb more amount of elemental mercury from hydrocarbons than the conventional adsorbents. It has been found further that the mercury in the forms of inorganic and organic compounds can also be adsorbed as well as elemental mercury from liquid hydrocarbons containing them by the adsorbents of the present invention.