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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2013
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
John Robert Lockemeyer, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Randall Clayton Yeates, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A process for treating a carrier, or a precursor thereof, to at least partly remove impurities from the carrier, or the precursor thereof, comprising: contacting the carrier, or the precursor thereof, with a treatment solution comprising a salt in a concentration of at most 0.05 molar, wherein the salt comprises a cation and an anion, and wherein the cation is selected from ammonium, phosphonium, organic cations and combinations thereof, and wherein the anion is selected from organic anions, inorganic carboxylates, oxyanions of elements from Groups IIIA through VIIA of the Periodic Table of Elements, and combinations thereof; and separating at least part of the treatment solution from the carrier, or the precursor thereof.