Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
22, 1963
3,074,380
O
0
4
1NVEN TORS
BY
LIONEL DOMASH
RICHARD A. FLINN
Mag
ATTORNEY
3,074,823@
Patented 5am.. E2, i953
2
the amount of hydrocracking will usually be small. It
is also known to subject lower boiling hydrocarbons such
3,074,880
IMPROVEMENT IN HYDRDESULFUREZATIQN
WITH AN
ADIATED CATALYST
Lionel Domash, Pittsburgh, and Richard A. Flinn,
Verona, Pa., assignors to Gulf Research da Development
Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., a corporation of Delaware
Filed Dec. 30, i958, Ser. No. 733,936
3 Claims. (Cl. 20S-Zio)
furized with hydrogen in the presence of a nickel oxide 40 or full power size can be used as a source for either
gamma rays or neutrons or both. Particle accelerators
catalyst combined with or mixed with tungsten oxide or
3,074,880
3
a very short half life. These gases possess about one
percent of the total fission energy. The gases are chemi
cally inert and therefore would not form undesired side
reaction products.
catalyst.
The irradiated catalyst used in the above test W'a? Sub;
jeoted to normal regeneration at a temperature of 1f 00
5 F. with steam and air. Thereafter a portion of the cataly S
was used in unirradiated condition for the sarne desulfur-y
ization reaction.
Table l
Column 1
Hrs. ori-stream
ColumnI 2
Gamma
Non
irradiated
irradiated'.
sulfur 1
sulfur 1
catalyst,
percent
catalyst,v
percent
0. 37
0.
30
0.39
0.36
0.38
0. 3S
0. 37
0.34
0.33
0. 35
0.38
Table Il
Column 1
EXAMPLE 1
0.36
Hrs. ori-stream
45
Column 2
Gamma
Non
irradiated
irradiated
sulfur 1
sulfur 1
catalyst,
percent
catalyst,
percent
0.52
0.61
8.
as
sa
50 1o
0.47
0,54
12
0.49
0.66
14 _______________________________________ _.
0. 52
0. 53
16
0. 46
0.60
18 _______________________________________ ._
0.52
0.51
20
0.49
0.53
55
Table Ill
Gravity ____________________________ __ API-- 23.5
Sulfur ____________________________ __percent-- 1.46I
3,074,880
f5
Table V
EXAMPLE 2
Col-
Charge
Col-
Col-
Col
urnnl umn2
umn?, umn-1
non- electron Charge non- electron
irradi- irradiirradi- irradi
ated
ated
ated
ated
Operating condi
tions:
(1)
4070
4020
. . . _.
(1)
51. 1
50.5
(1)
697
701
Avg. temperature: F
(1)
610
600
(1)
(1)
'5. 91
46. 93
3. 96
47.50
(1)
0.0
0. 1
Liquid product.-.
(1)
98. 9
98. 5
(1)
1. 3
1. 5
Total _________________________ ._
(1)
100. 2
100. 1
23.8
26.7
26.9
1 93
0 69
0.47
12.1
27.4
2.0
15.0
2.9
13. 7
62. 4
63. 3
63, 9
(1)
4,017
698
(1)
648
649
(l)
590
590
(1)
590
590
P.s.i.g. _
.__
Liquid hourly
3,971
space veloc
ity: Vol./hr./
Throughput:
vol ......... _.
(1)
8. 09
8.05
(1)
8. 06
8. 1l
VOL/vol ____ -_
(1)
80.81
80. 48
(1)
48.35
48.67
Balance: Percent
by weight of
charge: _________ _.
gases ....... _-
(1)
0. 1
0. 0
(1)
0.1
0. 1
Liquid product.
Sulfur removed.
(1)
(1)
99.4
1.6
98. 9
1. 7
(1)
(1)
99.1
0.8
99.1
0.9
Total ....... ._
(1)
101.1
100. 6
(1)
100.0
100.1
Gravity: API.
1123: Percent.
Ole?ns: Per
23.8
27. 5
27. 7
23. 9
25. 8
26. 1
1.93
0.31
0.29
1.39
0.59
0.49
12.1
2.3
2.1
12.1
6.8
3.8
27.4
10. 5
8.0
21.6
12.9
12. 4
62.4
62.2
61.8
60.5
58. 3
59. 7
cent by vol.
30
FIA method..
Broniine num
ber: ASTM
1, 978
701
Sulfur, GRM
2,090
(1)
25 Liquid product ln
spcction:
(1)
ature: F._.__
Pressure:
Hydrocarbon
Column 2
hydrogen):
SGF/bbl ____ -_
Avg. Temper
D 1159 ...... __
Aromatic con
tent: Percent
by vol. FIA
method ..... _-
40
We claim:
1. The process for hydrodesulfurizing a hydrocarbon
conditions given .in Table V. 1n one pair of runs a cobalt 55 tion `as specified above and re-using the regenerated and
mina was used. One run with this catalyst was with
unirradiated catalyst and the other run was with the same
zation process.
3. The process for hydrodesulfurizing a hydrocarbon
I3,074,880
'8
7
gen in the ptesence tof a catalyst selected from the group
2,687,370
p.s.i.g., :at a space velocity between about 0.25 and 10, 10 2,905,606
i 2,905,608
terminating said contacting before `a throughput of 60 has
2,953,509
2,959,530