# US 11,027,268 B2 · Composition and a method of making and use of such composition

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- Number: US 11,027,268 B2
- Document ID: US11027268B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 14/453,871
- Filed: 2014-08-07
- Published: 2014-11-20
- Granted: 2021-06-08
- Earliest claimed: 2012-02-07
- Assignees: Shell Oil Company
- Applicants: Shell Oil Company
- Inventors: William Douglas Gillespie; Alexei Grigorievich Gabrielov; Peter Wolohan; John Anthony Smegal
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11027268B2

## CPC

- B01J 31/26: containing in addition, inorganic metal compounds not provided for in groups B01J31/02 - B01J31/24
- B01J 23/8885: {containing also molybdenum}
- B01J 27/0515: {with iron group metals or platinum group metals}
- B01J 31/22: Organic complexes
- B01J 35/613: {10-100 m2/g}
- B01J 35/615: {100-500 m2/g}
- B01J 35/635: {0.5-1.0 ml/g}
- B01J 35/647: {2-50 nm}
- B01J 37/0201: {Impregnation}
- B01J 37/0203: {the impregnation liquid containing organic compounds}
- B01J 37/18: with gases containing free hydrogen
- B01J 37/20: Sulfiding
- C10G 45/12: containing crystalline alumino-silicates, e.g. molecular sieves
- C10G 49/04: containing nickel, cobalt, chromium, molybdenum, or tungsten metals, or compounds thereof
- B01J 21/04: Alumina
- B01J 31/0234: {Nitrogen-, phosphorus-, arsenic- or antimony-containing compounds}
- B01J 37/0009: {Use of binding agents; Moulding; Pressing; Powdering; Granulating; Addition of materials ameliorating the mechanical properties of the product catalyst}
- B01J 2231/005: General concepts, e.g. reviews, relating to methods of using catalyst systems, the concept being defined by a common method or theory, e.g. microwave heating or multiple stereoselectivity
- B01J 2531/845: Cobalt
- B01J: CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOID CHEMISTRY; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS
- C10G: CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS; PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVE HYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION (cracking to hydrogen or synthesis gas C01B; cracking or pyrolysis of hydrocarbon gases to individual hydrocarbons or mixtures thereof of definite or specified constitution C07C; cracking to cokes C10B); RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, OR GASES; REFINING MIXTURES MAINLY CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBONS; REFORMING OF NAPHTHA; MINERAL WAXES

## Abstract

A composition and method of making such a composition that has application in the hydroprocessing of hydrocarbon feedstocks. The method comprises selecting an organic additive by the use of a correlation model for predicting catalytic activity as a function of a physical property that is associated with the organic additive and incorporating the organic additive into a support material to provide the additive impregnated composition.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A composition for use in the hydroprocessing of a hydrocarbon feedstock, wherein said composition comprises:
a dried and calcined shaped support material that is thereafter impregnated with at least two metal components followed by drying and calcination thereof and thereby providing a metal-incorporated support having available pore volume, and thereafter at least 75% of said available pore volume is filled with a single amide organic additive capable of forming a metal complex with each of said at least two metal components and having a complexation energy of an absolute value of greater than 470 kcal/mol, and
wherein said amide organic additive is selected from the group consisting of formamide, methylformamide, dimethylformamide and diethylformamide, and
wherein said at least two metal components are one metal from a first group of metals consisting of cobalt and nickel, present in said composition in an amount in the range of from 0.5 wt. % to 20 wt. %, and a second metal from a second group of metals consisting of molybdenum and tungsten, present in said composition in an amount in the range of from 5 wt. % to 50 wt. %, wherein the weight percents are based on the weight of the dry support material with the metal component as the elemental form regardless of its actual form, and
wherein said calcined shaped support material is a porous refractory oxide selected from the group of refractory oxides consisting of silica, alumina, titania, zirconia, silica-alumina, silica-titania, silica-zirconia, titania-alumina, zirconia-alumina, and combinations of two or more thereof; and
wherein said support material has a surface area (as determined by the BET method) in the range of from 50 m2/g to 450 m2/g, a mean pore diameter in the range of from 50 to 200 angstroms (Å), and a total pore volume exceeding 0.55 cc/g; and wherein less than 7.5% of the total pore volume of said support material is contained in pore having a pore diameter greater than 350 Å.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

A hydroprocessing process, comprising: contacting under hydroprocessing conditions the composition of claim 1 with a hydrocarbon feedstock.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The composition as recited in claim 1, wherein said refractory oxide is selected from silica, alumina, and silica-alumina.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The composition as recited in claim 3, wherein less than 5% of the total pore volume of said calcined shaped support material is contained in its pores having a pore diameter greater than 350 Å.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The composition as recited in claim 4, wherein said calcined shaped support material having incorporated therein said at least two metal components and said amide organic additive has been subjected to a hydrogen gas treatment by exposure to hydrogen gas at a hydrogen partial pressure in the range of from 1 bar to 70 bar and at a temperature in the range of from 100° C. to 225° C. for a time period in the range of from 0.1 hours to 100 hours.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The composition as recited in claim 5, wherein said complexation energy is an absolute value of greater than 490 kcal/mol.

### Claim 7 (depends on 6)

The composition as recited in claim 6, wherein said surface area is in the range of from 100 m2/g to 400 m2/g.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The composition as recited in claim 7, wherein less than 5% of the total pore volume of said support material is contained in pores having a pore diameter greater than 350 Å.

### Claim 9 (depends on 8)

The composition as recited in claim 8, wherein the mean pore diameter is in the range of from 70 to 150 angstroms (Å).