The present invention relates to a hydroisomerization and cracking catalyst for preparing biological aviation kerosene from castor oil as well as a preparation method and an application thereof. The catalyst takes a Al-modified titanium silicate molecular sieve (TS-1) as a carrier, and takes Ni.sub.xW and Ni.sub.xMo as active components, wherein x is the atomic ratio of Ni to W or Ni to Mo, and x=5-10, wherein the mass of the active components accounts for 5-30% of the total mass of the catalyst; the molar ratio of Si:Ti in the Al-modified titanium silicate molecular sieve is 50-100, and the molar ratio of Si:Al is 50-100.

New sulfided metal catalysts are described, containing a metal X selected from Ni, Co and mixtures thereof, a metal Y selected from Mo, W and mixtures thereof, an element Z selected from Si, Al and mixtures thereof, and possibly an organic residue, obtained by the sulfidation of mixed oxide precursors, also new, having general formula (A)
X.sub.aY.sub.bZ.sub.cO.sub.d.pC(A) possibly shaped without a binder, or by sulfidation of mixed oxides having formula (A), in shaped form with a binder, wherein X is selected from Ni, Co and mixtures thereof, Y is selected from Mo, W and mixtures thereof, Z is selected from Si, Al and mixtures thereof, O is oxygen, C is selected from: a nitrogenated compound N, an organic residue deriving from the partial calcination of the nitrogenated compound N, said nitrogenated compound N, when present, being selected from: a) an alkyl ammonium hydroxide having formula (I)
R.sup.IR.sup.IIR.sup.IIIR.sup.IVNOH(I) wherein the groups R.sup.IR.sup.IV, the same or different, are aliphatic groups containing from 1 to 7 carbon atoms, b) an amine having formula (II)
R.sup.1R.sup.2R.sup.3N(II) wherein R.sup.1 is a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl, containing from 4 to 12 carbon atoms, and R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, the same or different, are selected from H and a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl, containing from 4 to 12 carbon atoms, said alkyl being equal to or different from R.sup.1, a, b, c, d are the number of moles of the elements X, Y, Z, O, respectively, p is the weight percentage of C with respect to the total weight of the precursor having formula (A), a, b, c, d are higher than 0 a/b is higher than or equal to 0.3 and lower than or equal to 2, (a+b)/c is higher than or equal to 0.3 and lower than or equal to 10, preferably varying from 0.8 to 10 d=(2a+6b+Hc)/2 wherein H=4 when Z=Si H=3 when Z=Al and p is higher than or equal to 0 and lower than or equal to 40%. Said catalysts can be used as hydrotreating catalysts.

The present invention provides a catalyst carrier with shift and adsorption purification performance, comprising modified bauxite in the raw material components which fluxing and pore forming effects. Most iron oxide contained in the bauxite is removed after modification, so that there are a large amount of highly active aluminosilicate compounds in the modified bauxite. When preparing the catalyst, the aluminosilicate compound serves as a low melting point flux and can significantly increase the migration rate of magnesium and aluminum ions during the calcinating process and promote the generation of MgAl.sub.2O.sub.4 at low temperatures, thereby the catalyst carrier of the present invention has strong anti-hydration capacity and mechanical strength. In addition, when the modified bauxite is used as macroporous hard template for the preparation of the catalyst, macro pores can be formed in the structure of the catalyst carrier after calcinating treatment, so that the catalyst carrier of the present invention has strong adsorption purification ability on macromolecular particles including oil pollution and dust

The invention relates to a process for preparing bulk metal oxide particles comprising the steps of combining in a reaction mixture (i) dispersible nanoparticles having a dimension of less than about 1 m upon being dispersed in a liquid, (ii) at least one Group VIII non-noble metal compound, (iii) at least one Group VIB metal compound, and (iv) a protic liquid; and reacting the at least one Group VIII non-noble metal compound and the at least one Group VIB metal in the presence of the nanoparticles. It also relates to bulk metal hydroprocessing catalysts obtainable by such method.

The present invention relates to a hydrocracking catalyst, a process for preparing the same and use thereof. The present catalyst comprises a cracking component and a hydrogenation component, wherein the cracking component comprises from 0 to 20 wt. % of a molecular sieve and from 20 wt. % to 60 wt. % of an amorphous silica-alumina, the hydrogenation component comprises at least one hydrogenation metal in a total amount of from 34 wt. % to 75 wt. % calculated by the mass of oxides, each amount is based on the total weight of the catalyst. The present catalyst is prepared by directly mixing an acidic component powder material with an impregnating solution, impregnating, filtering, drying, molding, and drying and calcining.

A catalyst preparation unit for producing an activated hydrocarbon-catalyst mixture. The catalyst preparation unit includes one or more catalyst reactant input conduits; a hydrocarbon input conduit; a water input conduit; one or more catalyst reactant mixing and conveyance systems for receiving and mixing catalyst reactants from the catalyst component input conduits and water provided by the water input conduit to provide one or more catalyst reactant solutions; one or more hydrocarbon mixing and conveyance systems for receiving and mixing the catalyst reactant solutions and hydrocarbons provided by the hydrocarbon input conduit to produce a hydrocarbon-catalyst reactant mixture; at least one reactor located downstream of the mixers, for receiving and activating the hydrocarbon-catalyst reactant mixture, thereby producing the activated hydrocarbon catalyst mixture; a gas/liquid separator located downstream of the reactor, for removing vapors and gas from the activated hydrocarbon-catalyst mixture; and an output conduit for transporting the activated hydrocarbon-catalyst mixture away from the catalyst preparation unit.

The invention relates to an oxidation catalyst comprising at least one inorganic, oxidic or ceramic, shaped support body having a BET surface area of less than 0.5 m.sup.2/g, based on the support, which is at least partly coated with a catalytically active multielement oxide, the catalyst being precious metal-free and the shaped support body having the form of a saddle whose saddle surface is curved oppositely in the two principal directions, to a process for producing it, to its use in various catalytic gas phase oxidations, and to corresponding processes for catalytic gas phase oxidation.

The catalyst for mild-hydrocracking of residual oil includes a porous alumina support a plurality of transition metals impregnated on the alumina support. The support has a specific surface area greater than 150 m.sup.2/g, a total pore volume ranging from about 0.25 ml/g to about 1.5 ml/g, about 20% of the pores having a diameter greater than 150 nm, about 70% of the pores having a diameter ranging from about 2 nm to about 150 nm, and about 10% of the pores having a diameter less than 2 nm. The plurality of transition metals include one Group VIII element and one or more Group VI elements.

A process is disclosed for opening naphthenic rings of naphthenic ring-containing compounds. Naphthene ring opening is achieved using a self-supported mixed metal sulfide catalyst comprising nickel sulfide, molybdenum sulfide, tungsten sulfide and an organic complexing agent. The catalyst is characterized as having a composition of metal components, in terms of molar ratios; as follows: 0.25Ni/(Ni+Mo+W)0.80; 0<Mo/(Ni+Mo+W)0.25; 0.12W/(Ni+Mo+W)0.50; and 1.5W/Mo3.0.

The present invention relates to a high-performance polyoxometalate catalyst and a method of preparing the same. More particularly, the present invention provides a high-performance polyoxometalate catalyst, the activity and selectivity of which may be improved by controlling the content of vanadium and the like and which has superior reproducibility and may unsaturated carboxylic acid from unsaturated aldehyde in a high yield for a long time, a method of preparing the same, and the like.