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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Ying-Yen P. Tsao, Bryn Mawr, PA (US);
Tracy J. Huang, Princeton, NJ (US);
Philip J. Angevine, Woodbury, NJ (US);
Assignee:
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, Annandale, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C10G 6/502 ; C10G 3/5085 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C10G 6/502 ; C10G 3/5085 ;
Abstract
A two stage process useful for cetane upgrading of diesel fuels. More particularly, the invention relates to a process for selective naphthenic ring-opening utilizing an extremely low acidic distillate selective catalyst having highly dispersed Pt. The process is a two stage process wherein the first stage is a hydrotreating stage for removing sulfur from the feed and the second stage is the selective ring-opening stage.