A process and catalyst is disclosed for converting heavy hydrocarbon feed into lighter hydrocarbon products using multifunctional catalysts. Multifunctional catalysts enable use of less expensive metal by substituting expensive metals for less expensive metals with no loss or superior performance in slurry hydrocracking. Less available and expensive ISM can be replaced effectively.

This disclosure relates to new crystalline microporous solids (including silicate- and aluminosilicate-based solids), the compositions comprising 8 and 10 membered inorganic rings, particularly those having CIT-7 topologies having a range of Si:Al ratios, methods of preparing these and known crystalline microporous solids using certain quaternized imidazolium cation structuring agents.

This disclosure relates to new crystalline microporous solids (including silicate- and aluminosilicate-based solids), the compositions comprising 8 and 10 membered inorganic rings, particularly those having CIT-7 topologies having a range of Si:Al ratios, methods of preparing these and known crystalline microporous solids using certain quaternized imidazolium cation structuring agents.

This disclosure relates to new crystalline microporous solids (including silicate- and aluminosilicate-based solids), the compositions comprising 8 and 10 membered inorganic rings, particularly those having HEU topologies having a range of Si:Al ratios, methods of preparing these and known crystalline microporous solids using certain quaternized imidazolium cation structuring agents.

This disclosure relates to new crystalline microporous solids (including silicate- and aluminosilicate-based solids), the compositions comprising 8 and 10 membered inorganic rings, particularly those having HEU topologies having a range of Si:Al ratios, methods of preparing these and known crystalline microporous solids using certain quaternized imidazolium cation structuring agents.

Systems and method for upgrading pyrolysis oil to produce greater value aromatic compounds includes combining heavy pyrolysis oil and a diluent to produce the pyrolysis oil feed withleast 30 wt. % multi-ring aromatic compounds boiling at greater than 360 C. The systems and methods include passing the pyrolysis oil feed to a fixed bed reactor having a hydrocracking catalyst that includes pellets having a particle size greater than or equal to 0.1 millimeter. The hydrocracking catalyst is a mixed metal oxide catalyst that includes a binder and mixed metal oxide particles or a supported metal oxide catalyst that includes molybdenum oxide and nickel oxide supported on a catalyst support material comprising a large-pore alumina. The methods may further include contacting the pyrolysis oil feed with the hydrogen in the presence of the hydrocracking catalyst at reaction conditions in the fixed bed reactor to produce a reaction effluent.

Systems and method for upgrading pyrolysis oil to produce greater value aromatic compounds includes combining heavy pyrolysis oil and a diluent to produce the pyrolysis oil feed withleast 30 wt. % multi-ring aromatic compounds boiling at greater than 360 C. The systems and methods include passing the pyrolysis oil feed to a fixed bed reactor having a hydrocracking catalyst that includes pellets having a particle size greater than or equal to 0.1 millimeter. The hydrocracking catalyst is a mixed metal oxide catalyst that includes a binder and mixed metal oxide particles or a supported metal oxide catalyst that includes molybdenum oxide and nickel oxide supported on a catalyst support material comprising a large-pore alumina. The methods may further include contacting the pyrolysis oil feed with the hydrogen in the presence of the hydrocracking catalyst at reaction conditions in the fixed bed reactor to produce a reaction effluent.

A catalyst for preparing aviation fuel from synthetic oil obtained by Fischer-Tropsch process, including: between 20 and 50 percent by weight of an amorphous aluminum silicate, between 5 and 20 percent by weight of alumina, between 20 and 60 percent by weight of a hydrothermally modified zeolite, between 0.5 and 1.0 percent by weight of a Sesbania powder, between 0.5 and 5 percent by weight of nickel oxide, and between 5 and 15 percent by weight of molybdenum oxide. The invention also provides a method for preparing the catalyst.

Methods are provided for making base metal catalysts with improved activity. After forming catalyst particles based on a support comprising a zeolitic molecular sieve, the catalyst particles can be impregnated with a solution comprising a) metal salts (or other precursors) for a plurality of base metals and b) an organic dispersion agent comprising 2 to 10 carbons. The impregnated support particles can be dried to form a base metal catalyst, and then optionally sulfided to form a sulfided base metal catalyst. The resulting (sulfided) base metal catalyst can have improved activity for cloud point reduction and/or for improved activity for heteroatom removal, relative to a base metal dewaxing catalyst prepared without the use of a dispersion agent.

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