A hydroprocessing catalyst or catalyst precursor has been developed. The catalyst is a transition metal tungstate material or metal sulfides derived therefrom. The hydroprocessing using the crystalline ammonia transition metal tungstate material may include hydrodenitrification, hydrodesulfurization, hydrodemetallation, hydrodesilication, hydrodearomatization, hydroisomerization, hydrotreating, hydrofining, and hydrocracking.

Disclosed are a process and system that are capable of performing selective hydrogenation on aromatic fractions by configuring a catalyst bed through staged loading of a plurality of hydrogenation catalysts with different catalytic properties, or configuring a catalyst system in which a plurality of hydrogenation catalysts are arranged using a plurality of reactors in such a way as to be equivalent with the staged loading, and as a result, are capable of suppressing aromatic loss while improving the selective removal of unsaturated hydrocarbons in the aromatic fraction and durability compared to the case of using a single catalyst.

Disclosed are a process and system that are capable of performing selective hydrogenation on aromatic fractions by configuring a catalyst bed through staged loading of a plurality of hydrogenation catalysts with different catalytic properties, or configuring a catalyst system in which a plurality of hydrogenation catalysts are arranged using a plurality of reactors in such a way as to be equivalent with the staged loading, and as a result, are capable of suppressing aromatic loss while improving the selective removal of unsaturated hydrocarbons in the aromatic fraction and durability compared to the case of using a single catalyst.

The present invention provides a catalytic gasoline desulfurization method having also an olefin selective removal function, which comprises: when a catalytic gasoline is pre-hydrotreated, cutting into a light fraction, a middle fraction and a heavy fraction; performing liquid-liquid extraction desulfurization treatment on the middle fraction to produce a sulfur-poor oil and a rich solvent containing sulfur-rich oil; the light fraction back-extracting the rich solvent, using C5 olefin therein to replace a macromolecular acyclic olefin in the sulfur-rich oil, so as to gather together C5 iso-olefins, cycloolefins, aromatic hydrocarbons and sulfides in the sulfur-rich oil; performing hydrogenation, olefin-reduction and desulfurization treatment on the heavy fraction together with the sulfur-rich oil removed from the back-extracted rich solvent to saturate the olefin therein; and finally, preparing together with the sulfur-poor oil to produce a full range gasoline. The sulfur-content of the catalytic gasoline produced by the method of the present invention can be reduced to 10 ppm or less, the olefin content of the catalytic gasoline can be reduced to 22%, the olefin is saturated by up to 8 percentage, and the RON loss of the full range gasoline is 1.5 or less, so that while reducing the olefin content of the catalytic gasoline, it ensures the less octane number loss, thereby satisfying the olefin-reduction requirements upgraded in the gasoline National VI Standard for ethanol-gasoline supply area enterprises.

The present invention provides a catalytic gasoline desulfurization method having also an olefin selective removal function, which comprises: when a catalytic gasoline is pre-hydrotreated, cutting into a light fraction, a middle fraction and a heavy fraction; performing liquid-liquid extraction desulfurization treatment on the middle fraction to produce a sulfur-poor oil and a rich solvent containing sulfur-rich oil; the light fraction back-extracting the rich solvent, using C5 olefin therein to replace a macromolecular acyclic olefin in the sulfur-rich oil, so as to gather together C5 iso-olefins, cycloolefins, aromatic hydrocarbons and sulfides in the sulfur-rich oil; performing hydrogenation, olefin-reduction and desulfurization treatment on the heavy fraction together with the sulfur-rich oil removed from the back-extracted rich solvent to saturate the olefin therein; and finally, preparing together with the sulfur-poor oil to produce a full range gasoline. The sulfur-content of the catalytic gasoline produced by the method of the present invention can be reduced to 10 ppm or less, the olefin content of the catalytic gasoline can be reduced to 22%, the olefin is saturated by up to 8 percentage, and the RON loss of the full range gasoline is 1.5 or less, so that while reducing the olefin content of the catalytic gasoline, it ensures the less octane number loss, thereby satisfying the olefin-reduction requirements upgraded in the gasoline National VI Standard for ethanol-gasoline supply area enterprises.

A catalyst and its use for selectively desulfurizing sulfur compounds present in an olefin-containing hydrocarbon feedstock to very low levels with minimal hydrogenation of olefins. The catalyst comprises an inorganic oxide substrate containing a nickel compound, a molybdenum compound and optionally a phosphorus compound, that is overlaid with a molybdenum compound and a cobalt compound. The catalyst is further characterized as having a bimodal pore size distribution with a large portion of its total pore volume contained in pores having a diameter less than 250 angstroms and in pores having a diameter greater than 1000 angstroms.

A catalyst and its use for selectively desulfurizing sulfur compounds present in an olefin-containing hydrocarbon feedstock to very low levels with minimal hydrogenation of olefins. The catalyst comprises an inorganic oxide substrate containing a nickel compound, a molybdenum compound and optionally a phosphorus compound, that is overlaid with a molybdenum compound and a cobalt compound. The catalyst is further characterized as having a bimodal pore size distribution with a large portion of its total pore volume contained in pores having a diameter less than 250 angstroms and in pores having a diameter greater than 1000 angstroms.

A process is disclosed for polishing a relatively highly pure stream of aromatic material bound for use as a petrochemical feedstock wherein the stream includes olefins and especially concerning, diolefins. The process comprises hydrotreating the highly pure aromatic stream with an unsulfided cobalt molybdenum catalyst that has low saturating activity for the aromatic but is active for saturating olefins and diolefins.

A process is disclosed for polishing a relatively highly pure stream of aromatic material bound for use as a petrochemical feedstock wherein the stream includes olefins and especially concerning, diolefins. The process comprises hydrotreating the highly pure aromatic stream with an unsulfided cobalt molybdenum catalyst that has low saturating activity for the aromatic but is active for saturating olefins and diolefins.

The present invention relates to methods for producing metal-supported thin layer skeletal catalyst structures, to methods for producing catalyst support structures without separately applying an intermediate washcoat layer, and to novel catalyst compositions produced by these methods. Catalyst precursors may be interdiffused with the underlying metal support then activated to create catalytically active skeletal alloy surfaces. The resulting metal-anchored skeletal layers provide increased conversion per geometric area compared to conversions from other types of supported alloy catalysts of similar bulk compositions, and provide resistance to activity loss when used under severe on-stream conditions. Particular compositions of the metal-supported skeletal catalyst alloy structures can be used for conventional steam methane reforming to produce syngas from natural gas and steam, for hydrodeoxygenation of pyrolysis bio-oils, and for other metal-catalyzed reactions inter alia.