Hydrocracking hydrocarbons over tri-metallic catalyst

Patent · Tue Apr 04 04:00:00 EST 1978

OSTI ID:7175784

Pollitzer, E L; Hayes, J C

A process is claimed for hydrotreating (hydroprocessing) hydrocarbons and mixtures of hydrocarbons utilizing a catalytic composite comprising a porous carrier material containing, on an elemental basis, about 0.01 to about 2 wt. % platinum group metal, about 0.5 to about 5 wt. % cobalt, about 0.01 to about 5 wt. % germanium and about 0.1 to about 3.5 wt. % halogen. The platinum group metal, cobalt and germanium are uniformly dispersed throughout the porous carrier material. Substantially all of the platinum group metal is present in the elemental metallic state, but substantially all of the germanium is present in an oxidation state above that of the elemental metal. Substantially all of the cobalt is present in the elemental metallic state or in a state which is reducible to the elemental metallic state under hydrocarbon conversion conditions or in a mixture of these states, in which process there is effected a chemical consumption of hydrogen. A specific example of one such catalyst is a composite of a crystalline aluminosilicate, a platinum group metal component, a cobalt component, a germanium component, and a halogen component, for utilization in a hydrocracking process. Other hydrocarbon hydroprocesses are directed toward the hydrogeneration of aromatic nuclei, the ring-opening of cyclic hydrocarbons, hydrogenation, etc.

• Assignee: UOP Inc.
• Patent Number(s): US 4082649
• OSTI ID: 7175784
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

02 PETROLEUM
020400* -- Petroleum-- Processing
CATALYSTS
CATALYTIC EFFECTS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COBALT
CRACKING
DECOMPOSITION
ELEMENTS
GERMANIUM
HALOGENS
HYDROCARBONS
HYDROCRACKING
METALS
NONMETALS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PLATINUM
PLATINUM METALS
PYROLYSIS
TRANSITION ELEMENTS