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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2011
Tan-jen Chen, Kingwood, TX (US);
Jihad Mohammed Dakka, Whitehouse Station, NJ (US);
Terry Eugene Helton, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Francisco Manuel Benitez, Cypress, TX (US);
Charles Morris Smith, Houston, TX (US);
Lorenzo Cophard Decaul, Langhorne, PA (US);
Tan-Jen Chen, Kingwood, TX (US);
Jihad Mohammed Dakka, Whitehouse Station, NJ (US);
Terry Eugene Helton, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Francisco Manuel Benitez, Cypress, TX (US);
Charles Morris Smith, Houston, TX (US);
Lorenzo Cophard DeCaul, Langhorne, PA (US);
ExxonMobil Chemical Patents Inc., Baytown, TX (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a process for dehydrogenating a saturated cyclic hydrocarbon and/or 5-membered ring compound with a dehydrogenation catalyst. The dehydrogenation catalyst comprises: (i) 0.05 wt % to 5 wt % of a metal selected from Group 14 of the Periodic Table of Elements; and (ii) 0.1 wt % to 10 wt % of a metal selected from Groups 6 to 10 of the Periodic Table of Elements. The process is conducted under dehydrogenation conditions effective to dehydrogenate at least a portion saturated cyclic hydrocarbon and/or 5-membered ring compound.