Hydrocarbon conversion with an acidic multi-metallic catalytic composite

Patent · Tue Oct 11 04:00:00 EDT 1977

OSTI ID:7284399

Wilhelm, F C

Hydrocarbons are converted by contacting them with an acidic multimetallic catalytic composite comprising a combination of a platinum or palladium component, a rhodium component, a rhenium component, a lead component, and a halogen component with a porous carrier material. The components are present in amounts corresponding to about 0.01 to about 2 wt. % platinum or palladium metal, about 0.01 to about 2 wt. % rhodium, about 0.01 to about 2 wt. % rhenium, about 0.1 to about 3.5 wt. % halogen, and an atomic ratio of lead to platinum or palladium of about 0.05 : 1 to about 0.9 : 1. Moreover, these metallic components are uniformly dispersed throughout the porous carrier material in carefully controlled oxidation states such that substantially all of the platinum or palladium component is present therein in the elemental metallic state; substantially all of the rhenium and rhodium components are present therein 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 and substantially all of the lead component is present in an oxidation state above that of the elemental metal. A specific example of the type of hydrocarbon conversion process disclosed is a process for the catalytic reforming of a low-octane gasoline fraction wherein the gasoline fraction and a hydrogen stream are contacted with the acidic multimetallic catalyst disclosed herein at reforming conditions. 16 claims, no drawings.

• Assignee: UOP Inc.
• Patent Number(s): US 4053389
• OSTI ID: 7284399
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

02 PETROLEUM
020400* -- Petroleum-- Processing
CATALYSTS
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COMPOSITE MATERIALS
CONVERSION
DISPERSIONS
ELEMENTS
FUELS
GASOLINE
HYDROCARBONS
LEAD
METALS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PALLADIUM
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
PLATINUM
PLATINUM METALS
REFORMER PROCESSES
REFRACTORY METALS
RHENIUM
RHODIUM
TRANSITION ELEMENTS