Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for testing the accessibility of porous materials with regard to large, often high-molecular weight compounds and correlating said accessibility to the porous material's accessibility under conditions of use, i.e. the application conditions.
Abstract:
A process for the alkylation of saturated hydrocarbons by reacting an alkylatable compound with an alkylation agent to form a product stream comprising alkylate. The process involves the use of a series of at least two reactors. During the process, the product stream is subjected to an interstage distillation step, thereby removing at least a portion of the alkylate from the product stream before the product stream is introduced into a downstream reactor. In this process the alkylate concentration is kept at a relatively low level, thereby minimising the amount of undesired by-products that can be formed by, e.g., degradation of alkylate and condensation of degradation products.
Abstract:
A process for preparing a catalyst is disclosed. The process generally comprises the steps of: (a) preparing a slurry comprising clay, zeolite, a sodium-free silica source, quasi-crystalline boehmite, and micro-crystalline boehmite, provided that the slurry does not comprise peptized quasi-crystalline boehmite; (b) adding a monovalent acid to the slurry; (c) adjusting the pH of the slurry to a value above about 3, and (d) shaping the slurry to form particles. This process results in attrition resistant catalysts with a good accessibility.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a process for the preparation of anionic clay and boehmite-containing compositions. These compositions may also contain unreacted trivalent metal source and/or divalent metal source. The process involves subjecting a precursor mixture comprising a divalent metal source and a trivalent metal source to at least two aging steps, wherein at least once between two aging steps an aluminium source is added. An advantage of the invention is that the crystallinity of the boehmite in the composition can be tuned.
Abstract:
Fluid catalytic cracking process comprising the steps of (a) preparing a physical 5 mixture comprising (i) aluminium trihydrate and/or flash-calcined aluminium trihydrate and (ii) a divalent metal oxide, hydroxide, carbonate, or hydroxycarbonate, (b) shaping the physical mixture of step a) to form fluidisable particles, and (c) adding the fluidisable particles obtained from step b) or step c) to a fluid catalytic cracking unit. In this FCC process, active sites of the catalyst composition are formed in-situ, i.e. in the FCC unit, without requiring peptisation, aging, or calcination steps prior to the addition of the composition to the hydrocarbon conversion unit.
Abstract:
Process for the preparation of a catalyst comprising the steps of: (a) combining solid acid particles with a binder to form a catalyst precursor; (b) calcining the catalyst precursor at a temperature in the range of 400-575°C, (c) impregnating the calcined catalyst precursor with a solution of a Group VIII noble metal and NH4+ ions; and (d) calcining the impregnated particles at a catalyst temperature in the range of 400-500°C. The use of two calcination steps in the above temperature ranges results in alkylation catalysts with improved performance.
Abstract:
Process for the preparation of an additive-containing anionic clay comprising the steps of (a) milling a physical mixture of a divalent metal compound and a trivalent metal compound, (b) calcining the physical mixture at a temperature in the range 200-800°C, and (c) hydrating the calcined mixture in aqueous suspension, wherein an additive is present in the physical mixture and/or the aqueous suspension of step (c). With this process additive-containing anionic clays with a homogeneous additive distribution can be prepared.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for alkylating a hydrocarbon feed which comprises contacting the hydrocarbon feed to be alkylated with an alkylation agent in the presence of a catalyst comprising a solid acid, a hydrogenation metal, and 1.5 - 6 wt% of water, measured as the loss on ignition at 600°C. The presence of 1.5 - 6 wt% of water results in a higher activity and a higher alkylate quality compared with a comparable but drier catalyst.
Abstract:
Fluid catalytic cracking process comprising the steps of (a) preparing a physical mixture comprising (i) aluminium trihydrate and/or flash-calcined aluminium trihydrate and (ii) a divalent metal oxide, hydroxide, carbonate, or hydroxycarbonate, (b) shaping the physical mixture of step a) to form fluidisable particles, and (c) adding the fluidisable particles obtained from step b) or step c) to a fluid catalytic cracking unit. In this FCC process, active sites of the catalyst composition are formed in - situ, i.e. in the FCC unit, without requiring peptisation, aging, or calcination steps prior to the addition of the composition to the hydrocarbon conversion unit.
Abstract:
Metal-containing composition and use thereof in catalytic reactions, which metal-containing composition is obtainable by contacting a metal hydroxy salt with a solution comprising one or more pH-dependent anions selected from the group consisting of pH-dependent boron-containing anions, vanadium-containing anions, tungsten-containing anions, molybdenum-containing anions, iron-containing anions, niobium-containing anions, tantalum-containing anions, aluminium-containing anions, and gallium-containing anions.