Hydrogen transfer process
AssigneeMobil Oil Corporation
InventorsAlbin Huss, Jr., Quang N. Le, Robert T. Thomson
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Abstract
The transfer of hydrogen from a paraffin to an olefin is carried out in the presence of, as catalyst, MCM-36. Especially when the paraffin reactant is an isoparaffin, the olefin produced from the reacted isoparaffin may react with unreacted isoparaffin to also produce an alkylate product.
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A process for transferring hydrogen from a paraffin to an olefin, said process comprising contacting said paraffin and said olefin under sufficient hydrogen transfer conditions, said paraffin and said olefin being contacted with a catalyst comprising MCM-36, said MCM-36 being a pillared, layered material having the X-ray diffraction pattern of Table 6.
A dual catalytic process for converting an isoparaffin feed and an olefin feed, said process comprising contacting both said isoparaffin feed and said olefin feed with a catalyst comprising MCM-36, said MCM-36 being a pillared, layered material having the X-ray diffraction pattern of Table 6, wherein the reaction conditions are sufficient to cause the following two results:
- (i) the transfer of hydrogen, from said isoparaffin feed to said olefin feed, whereby isoparaffin feed is converted into olefin product and olefin feed is converted into a first paraffin product, said olefin product being different from said olefin feed;
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- (ii) said olefin product from step (i) alkylates with unreacted isoparaffin in said isoparaffin feed to produce a second paraffin product having the number of carbon atoms equal to the sum of the carbon atoms in the olefin and isoparaffin which are reacted together in this step (ii).
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