(49a) Development of a New Hydrocracking Catalyst for Distillate Production That Can be Used for Refineries Making Lube Products
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
2015
2015 AIChE Spring Meeting and 11th Global Congress on Process Safety
18th Topical Conference on Refinery Processing
Advances in Catalysis Cont'd
Monday, April 27, 2015 - 3:30pm to 4:00pm
Hydrocracking is a refining process that converts heavy, high-boiling feedstock molecules to smaller, lower boiling products through carbon-carbon bond breaking with hydrogenation. Modern catalysts have been formulated to provide refiners the flexibility to tune their operation to products more heavily weighted to the naphtha pool or to products more heavily weighted to the diesel pool.
Hydrocracking catalysts are bifunctional. The cracking function is usually provided by an acidic support such as amorphous oxides and/or zeolites and the hydrogenating/dehydrogenating function is typically provide by non-noble metal sulfides such as Ni/Mo or Ni/W. A new catalyst was discovered with enhanced performance. New materials and new methods of preparation has led to improvement in activity and total distillate yield as well as improvement in the viscosity index of the unconverted oil. Detailed characterization was done to understand the fundamental differences that developed in the catalysts with the use of new materials or different preparation methods.
Performance of the catalyst is measured by performance in a pilot plant; then characterization aids in the understanding of the changes that can relate to the observed performance. Recently a catalyst with improved distillate yield was developed and characterized. This talk will focus on characterization of the catalysts which provided insight on the performance
Topics
Checkout
This paper has an Extended Abstract file available; you must purchase the conference proceedings to access it.
Do you already own this?
Log In for instructions on accessing this content.
Pricing
Individuals
2015 AIChE Spring Meeting and 11th Global Congress on Process Safety
AIChE Pro Members | $150.00 |
AIChE Graduate Student Members | Free |
AIChE Undergraduate Student Members | Free |
AIChE Explorer Members | $225.00 |
Non-Members | $225.00 |
18th Topical Conference on Refinery Processing only
AIChE Pro Members | $100.00 |
Fuels and Petrochemicals Division Members | Free |
AIChE Graduate Student Members | Free |
AIChE Undergraduate Student Members | Free |
AIChE Explorer Members | $150.00 |
Non-Members | $150.00 |