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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2005
Bala Ramachandran, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Lawrence L. Murrell, South Plainfield, NJ (US);
Martin Kraus, Worms, DE;
Zhiping Shan, Austin, TX (US);
Philip J. Angevine, Woodbury, NJ (US);
Bala Ramachandran, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Lawrence L. Murrell, South Plainfield, NJ (US);
Martin Kraus, Worms, DE;
Zhiping Shan, Austin, TX (US);
Philip J. Angevine, Woodbury, NJ (US);
Lummus Technology Inc., Bloomfield, NJ (US);
Abstract
A process for the selective ring opening of ring-containing hydrocarbons in a feed stream having at least 10% ring-containing hydrocarbons includes contacting the feed stream with a ring opening catalyst containing a metal or a mixture of metals active for the selective ring opening of the ring-containing hydrocarbons on a support material, wherein the support material is a non-crystalline, porous inorganic oxide or mixture of inorganic oxides having at least 97 volume percent interconnected mesopores based on micropores and mesopores, and wherein the ring-containing hydrocarbons have at least one Cring and at least one substituent selected from the group consisting of fused 5- or 6-membered rings, alkyl, cycloalkyl and aryl groups.