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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 18, 1994
Jeevan S Abichandani, Voorhees, NJ (US);
Chaya R Venkat, Princeton, NJ (US);
Mobil Oil Corporation, Fairfax, VA (US);
Abstract
A mixture of aromatic hydrocarbons, comprising ethylbenzene and at least one xylene, is isomerized using a two component catalyst system to convert the ethylbenzene to compounds that may be removed from the aromatic hydrocarbon stream and to produce a product stream wherein the para-xylene concentration is approximately equal to the equilibrium ratio of the para-isomer. The first catalyst comprises an intermediate pore size zeolite that is effective for ethylbenzene conversion. The first catalyst is preferably silica-bound. The second catalyst comprises an intermediate pore size zeolite, which further has a small crystal size and which is effective to catalyze xylene isomerization. Each of the catalysts of this invention may contain one or more hydrogenation/dehydrogenation component.