Denitrification of a hydrocarbon feed

A method for removing nitrogen compounds from a hydrocarbon feed, comprising:

• contacting the feed with an adsorbent comprising at least one organic heterocyclic salt deposited on a porous support selected from the group consisting of molecular sieve, silica, alumina, silica-alumina, carbon, clay and mixtures thereof, thereby resulting in a product containing a reduced amount of nitrogen as compared with the feed and the product has a nitrogen concentration of less than 10 ppm;
• wherein the feed is selected from any of hydrotreated products, hydrocracked products, coker products, straight run feed, distillate products, FCC bottoms, atmospheric and vacuum bottoms, vacuum gas oils and unconverted oils, the feed has a nitrogen concentration of 3-50 ppm, wherein the adsorbent is stationary in a fixed bed adsorber in a continuous process and no mechanical stirring is applied to the process.