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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 1997
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Richard Vance Lawrence, Houston, TX (US);
Pei-Shing Eugene Dai, Port Arthur, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texaco Inc., White Plains, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C10G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
208135 ; 208111 ; 208134 ; 208137 ; 208138 ; 208 78 ;
Abstract
Disclosed is a one-step process intended as an alternative to catalytic reforming which upgrades naphthas by simultaneously saturating aromatics, isomerizing paraffins and selectively cracking heavier hydrocarbons which comprises contacting heavy naphtha feedstock in a reforming zone with a catalyst comprising a solid acid, optionally with a binder of Group III and/or IV of the Periodic Table, having a metal from Group VIII of the Periodic Table deposited thereon, wherein the reaction conditions are much milder than those typically used in catalytic reforming.