WO1994008712A1 - Hydroalkylation of aromatic hydrocarbons - Google Patents

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WO1994008712A1
WO1994008712A1 PCT/AU1993/000531 AU9300531W WO9408712A1 WO 1994008712 A1 WO1994008712 A1 WO 1994008712A1 AU 9300531 W AU9300531 W AU 9300531W WO 9408712 A1 WO9408712 A1 WO 9408712A1
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  • the invention provides a new route for the production of specialty chemicals and specification grade jet and diesel fuel from highly aromatic materials, for example liquids derived from coal hydrogenation processes or petroleum reformates. It is also known that aromatic constituents are included in liquids from coal pyrolysis, some shale oils and in liquids derived from conversion of oxygenates and hydrocarbons over zeolite catalysts. Aromatics are considered excellent gasoline components because of their high octane number, however, they are considered too "smoky" for commercial jet fuel and give a low cetane number for diesel fuels. Further, aromatics emission from unburnt and combusted fuel has become an important issue environmentally with recent and indicated government legislation for the reduction of the aromatics content of gasoline and diesel fuels.
  • a reductive alkylation (hydroalkylation) process in which a monocycloalkyl aromatic hydrocarbon or a substituted monocycloalkyl aromatic hydrocarbon is prepared by contacting, respectively, an aromatic hydrocarbon or alkyl substituted aromatic hydrocarbon with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst comprising ruthenium and nickel supported on zeolite beta.
  • the catalyst can also include a rare-earth metal or tungsten.
  • the hydroalkylation occurs through the partial hydrogenation of the aromatic hydrocarbon to a cycloalkene.
  • the cycloalkene then reacts with the aromatic hydrocarbon or alkyl substituted aromatic hydrocarbon to obtain the desired monocycloalkyl aromatic hydrocarbon or substituted monocycloalkyl aromatic hydrocarbon.
  • the present invention provides a catalyst for hydroalkylating an aromatic hydrocarbon, the catalyst comprising a molecular sieve material having an acid function, a hydrogenation component and a shape selective function wherein the molecular sieve material has a pore size that is capable of accommodating molecules of the products to be produced and excluding molecules of reactants that are too large.
  • the present invention provides a process for hydroalkylating an aromatic hydrocarbon, the process comprising contacting an aromatic hydrocarbon with hydrogen in the presence of the catalyst.
  • the specific size constraints of different molecular sieve framework structures limit the reactants and the size of product molecules through product selectivity and active site selectivity.
  • the controlling function is the rate of diffusion of product away from the reactive sites, through the pores and out of the crystallite.
  • Reactant selectivity is based on the exclusion of a potential reactant by its size and the size of the pore.
  • Product shape is controlled by the volume available at the active site which precludes the formation of too bulky intermediates at the site.
  • molecular sieve is all inclusive in that it embraces all materials that exhibit shape selectivity, regardless of composition or degree of crystallinity.
  • the molecular sieve characteristic of the material exists where the framework structure creates a porous regular array of apertures.
  • the apertures are of a size as to be able to take up molecules into their porous structure whilst rejecting others on the basis of their larger effective molecular dimensions.
  • zeolites are considered the primary molecular sieves [zeolites are crystalline aluminosilicates which are three dimensional structures arising from a framework of [SiO 4 ] 4- and [AlO 4 ] 5- coordinated polyhedra linked by their corner atoms] and are of major importance in the invention, other non-aluminosilicate materials, such as some carbons and silicas, have molecular sieve properties. Also an ever-increasing number of crystalline porous substances are being synthesised containing co-ordination polyhedra of elements other than just silicon or aluminium. Candidate elements for such isomorphous replacement are for example 6a, and B, close to A1 in Group III of the Periodic Table and Ge, close to Si in Group IV.
  • MeAPOs metal-organic phosphide
  • framework structures incorporating some metals from Groups III, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII of the Periodic Table of Elements. Studies have shown that some of these materials have high catalytic activity.
  • MLS molecularly engineered layer structures
  • PILC pillared interlayered clays
  • Molecular sieves with an ion exchange capacity have an increased pore size control ability in that the exchange of ions may increase or reduce the pore dimensions to sizes comparable to the dimension of the reactant molecules and/or the potential product.
  • ion exchanges can be used to place cations into specific framework sites so as to create active sites to which reactant molecules can be attracted thus promoting the bond distortion and rupture essential to molecular rearrangements.
  • Another feature of ion exchange is that it provides a route for the introduction of metal cations which can subsequently be reduced to catalytically active metal particles. This introduces a bifunctional nature to the molecular sieve.
  • This Br ⁇ nsted acid site arises from the creation of "hydroxyls" within the pore structure which are usually formed by ammonium exchange followed by a calcination step.
  • these "protonated” species can be made by direct exchange with mineral acids.
  • the hydroxyls are protons associated with negatively charged framework oxygen linked into alumina tetrahedra creating the Br ⁇ nsted sites.
  • These protons have great mobility particularly above 200°C, and at 550°C they lose water forming Lewis acid sites.
  • the Lewis sites in turn are unstable, especially in the presence of water vapour and an annealing process occurs with the ejection of Al from the. framework which becomes more stable (dealumination).
  • the size exclusion and steric inhibition together with the intermolecular forces between the constituents of the molecular sieve and the sorbate molecules offer opportunities for unique selectivities based on competitive sorption properties of various molecular sieves.
  • Variables such as the silica to alumina ratio, the nature of the cation species and the geometry of the channels (unidimensional, multi-dimensional or interconnecting with super cages) are important considerations for the catalyst. They also contribute to catalyst's stability, reduce its coking propensity and increase its amenability to regeneration.
  • the process feed or starting material for conversion to specialty chemicals and/or jet and diesel fuel boiling range products or blendstock is an aromatic or aromatic containing hydrocarbon, preferably containing benzene and/or an alkyl substituted aromatic hydrocarbon.
  • the alkyl substitute may be less than 10 carbon atoms, preferably 1 to 5 carbon atoms.
  • the most preferred alkyl substituent is methyl.
  • Suitable starting material include any or a mixture of benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene, the xylenes, trimethyl benzenes, tetramethyl benzenes, biphenyl and alkyl substituted biphenyls.
  • the starting material may contain an aromatic or mixture of aromatics in any other liquid or gas mixture which comprises 0 to 95 volume percent of the feed stream.
  • the aromatic feed mass hourly space velocity (MHSV) may range between 0.1 and 100 hr -1 , preferably between 1 and 50 hr -1 .
  • the feed may be introduced to the catalyst in a reactor under a wide range of conditions. It is preferred that hydrogen be present at pressures between 1 and 200 atmospheres, more preferably between 1 and 100 atmospheres. Further, the hydrogen feed rate lies preferably in a range from 0.2 and 5 mole of hydrogen per mole of aromatic feed and more preferably between 0.2 and 1.5 mole/mole of aromatic feed.
  • the reaction temperature is not particularly critical, however, it preferably ranges from 80°C to 350°C.
  • the hydroalkylation process may be carried out in a fixed bed reactor with the aromatic feed and hydrogen contacting the catalyst in an upflow or downflow arrangement. It is also possible to use a countercurrent flow of hydrogen and the aromatic feedstock over the catalyst.
  • a fixed bed reactor is described any other type of reactor may be used, for example, fluid bed, slurry phase stirred reactor etc.
  • the invention provides a catalyst comprising a molecular sieve support with a pore or channel structure of sufficient size for the entry of reactants and departure of products and an active site selectivity to aromatic hydroalkylation products.
  • the molecular sieve desirably has, at least what is termed a medium to large pore size formed by the framework structure.
  • the pores or channels of the molecular sieve structure should be greater than 5 ⁇ and should be preferably 2-dimensional and more preferably 3-dimensional in nature and preferably be interconnected.
  • the molecular sieve support may be selected from the group of aluminosilicate zeolites consisting of zeolite beta, Nu-2, EU-1, ZSM-4, ZSM-5, ZSM-5/ZSM-11, ZSM-12, ZSM-20, ZSM-23, ZSM-35, ZSM-38, ZSM-47, ZSM-48, ZSM-50, Type X, Type Y, EMC-2, CSZ-1, ECR-30 mordenite, offretite, zeolite L, zeolite omega and zeolite PHI.
  • It may also be selected from any metal substituted zeolite whereby some or all of the aluminium and/or the silicon of the above zeolites has been replaced by one or more elements from the Groups II to VIII of the Periodic Table of Elements for example Ga, B, Fe, Cr, Mn, V, Ti, Ge, As, Be etc.
  • the molecular sieve support may be selected from the aluminophosphates (AlPO 4 's), silicoaluminophosphates (SAPOs), metalloaluminophosphates (MeAPOs) particularly VPI-5, AlPO-5, SAPO-5, SAPO-11, SAPO-31, SAPO-36, SAPO-37, SAPO-40, SAPO-41, CoAPO-50 and other metal substituted materials of similar structure e.g. BeGeAPO-11 and AsBeAPO-31 etc.
  • the molecular sieve used in the process of this invention may include, in the as synthesised form, exchangeable cations such as lithium, sodium, potassium, caesium, rubidium, beryllium, calcium, magnesium, strontium, barium etc. These cations may be partially or completely replaced with other different cations. Particularly preferred are rare earth metal ions, transition metal ions (or mixtures of these ions) and other ions such as hydrogen and ammonium. The replacement of the initial ions should not alter the basic structure of the molecular sieve support and preferably the amount of ions exchanged onto the sieve is as much as can be achieved.
  • the rare earth metal may be selected from the group consisting of cerium, lanthanum, praseodymium, neodymium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium or mixtures thereof.
  • a preferred aspect of the molecular sieve is that it has an acidic function obtained by ion exchange and/or
  • the molecular sieve may be used in the process as prepared or after calcining in air or after calcining and/or treatment by ion exchange, impregnation and/or by incipient wetness techniques with inorganic and/or organic metal or ammonium containing compounds.
  • aqueous and/or non-aqueous solutions may be used.
  • the preferred catalyst of this invention contains, after treatment an active metal or metals from Group Ib, IIb, IIIb, VIb, VIIb and VIII of the Periodic Table of Elements in quantities of from 0.1% to 25 wt% of the catalyst. Most preferred are those elements which impart a hydrogenation component to the support. Generally this includes one or more metals from copper, chromium, cobalt, nickel, tungsten, molybdenum and zinc.
  • the catalyst may contain an additional element or elements, from Groups V, VI, VII and VIII of the Periodic Table which may act as a promoter.
  • the promoter or promoters may be added by ion exchange, impregnation, and/or precipitation from aqueous and/or non-aqueous solutions of inorganic or organic compounds. Further the promoter may be also added by dry mixing an easily decomposable compound such as an acetate, nitrate, chloride, bromide, carbonyl, sulphide etc.
  • the promoter may be from 0.001% to 10 wt% of the catalyst.
  • the preferred promoters may be silver, copper, platinum, palladium, ruthenium, rhenium, iridium or rhodium or mixtures thereof.
  • the catalyst containing the metal compounds may be activated by reduction. This reduction may be carried out in a 5% to 100% hydrogen atmosphere at a temperature from 50° to 600°C at a pressure from 0 to 200 atmospheres and for 5 minutes to 24 hours.
  • the molecular sieve may be combined, dispersed or otherwise intimately mixed and pressed with an inorganic oxide matrix in proportions that result in a product containing 10 wt% to 100 wt% of catalyst in the final product.
  • Matrices which impart desirable properties to the catalyst such as increased strength and attrition resistance to the catalyst and aid in dissipation of the heat of reaction are preferred.
  • Oxides of silica, aluminium, zirconium, titanium, chromium, etc. may be used.
  • the present invention provides a catalyst and process for hydroalkylation of aromatic compounds.
  • a catalyst comprising copper, nickel and a rare earth element supported on a molecular sieve having a medium to large interconnected 3-dimensional channel structure.
  • the preferred molecular sieve may consist of zeolite Type X, Type Y, ZSM 20 or zeolite beta, or any combination thereof.
  • the copper content of the catalyst may lie in the range from 2 to 25 wt% of the catalyst, the nickel content from 1 to 25 wt% and the rare earth elements from 0.2 to 15 wt%.
  • the active metals may be promoted by an additional element or elements which further enhance the activity, selectivity, stability and/or regenerability of the catalyst.
  • the preferred promoter is platinum or ruthenium and the content may lie in the range 0.001 to 2 wt% of the catalyst.
  • the process of the present invention may be used for hydroalkylating aromatic compounds, boiling in the gasoline range, to yield compounds boiling in the jet and/or diesel fuel range. This enhances the jet and diesel fuel fraction of a hydrocarbon stream and provides a method for reducing the benzene and total aromatic content of gasoline.
  • the US "Clean Air Act of 15th November 1990 requires that benzene in gasoline be restricted to 1% by volume while the total aromatics are to be less than 25% by volume.
  • the process of the present invention may be used for hydroalkylating an essentially pure compound to obtain a more valuable product or specialty chemical, for example benzene may be hydroalkylated to cyclohexylbenzene.
  • any hydroalkylated product or compounds from the hydroalkylation reactor may be further purified after separation from the unreacted feed.
  • the feed may be recycled while the product may be further treated to a fully saturated product by feeding it, with hydrogen into a hydrogenation unit operating at conditions and with a catalyst familiar to those within the industry.
  • the hydroalkylated product of benzene, cyclohexylbenzene may be further hydrogenated to bicyclohexyl.
  • Purified product may be sold as specialty chemicals while less purified product may be used as a jet or diesel fuel boiling range product or blendstock.
  • 40g of the zeolite beta was ion exchanged with ammonium nitrate three times and then exchanged with a nickel, rare earth solution (1 litre containing 29.1 g of Ni (NO 3 ) 2 .6H 2 O and 0.5g of mischmetal dissolved in acid).
  • the zeolite was collected, washed, dried and then impregnated with 11.8g of copper acetate, 12.4g of nickel nitrate and 0.1g of ruthenium chloride dissolved in 200g of water. The mixture was stirred until a firm paste was formed and then dried overnight at 140°C, calcined at 550°C, pressed, crushed and sized to a -500 + 250 ⁇ m fraction.
  • the operating conditions as well as the results are listed in the Table.
  • the trials indicate that the supporting molecular sieve with the ruthenium promoted copper, nickel and rare earth active metals is an active catalyst for hydroalkylation of aromatic feeds to higher boiling point compounds suitable for distillate feedstock or, if purified for specialty chemicals.

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The specification discloses a catalyst and a process for hydroalkylating aromatic hydrocarbons. The catalyst comprises a molecular sieve material having an acid function, a hydrogenation component and a shape selective function. The sieve material has a pore size that is capable of accommodating molecules of the products and excluding molecules of reactants that are too large. Sieve materials described include zeolite types X and Y, ZSM 20 and zeolite beta. The hydrogenation component includes copper and/or nickel and/or a rare earth metal. Promoters for the catalyst include ruthenium and platinum. The process involves contacting a stream of aromatic hydrocarbons with hydrogen in the presence of the catalyst under hydroalkylation conditions.

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HYDROALKYLATION OF AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS
The invention provides a new route for the production of specialty chemicals and specification grade jet and diesel fuel from highly aromatic materials, for example liquids derived from coal hydrogenation processes or petroleum reformates. It is also known that aromatic constituents are included in liquids from coal pyrolysis, some shale oils and in liquids derived from conversion of oxygenates and hydrocarbons over zeolite catalysts. Aromatics are considered excellent gasoline components because of their high octane number, however, they are considered too "smoky" for commercial jet fuel and give a low cetane number for diesel fuels. Further, aromatics emission from unburnt and combusted fuel has become an important issue environmentally with recent and indicated government legislation for the reduction of the aromatics content of gasoline and diesel fuels. Thus the saturation of the aromatics fraction or the development of alternative processing strategies such as their hydroalkylation to non-fused cycloalkanes, which are suitable distillate blendstocks, provide a viable option to refineries to meet existing and proposed legislative and environmental pressures to reduce the levels of aromatics in transport fuels. The hydroalkylation of aromatic compounds over dual function catalysts has been demonstrated previously and examples are incorporated herein for reference. Slaugh, L.H. and Leonard, J.A. in US Patent 3,412,165 have produced cyclohexylbenzene from benzene over a variety of transition metal catalysts including nickel/tungsten, palladium and platinum on zeolite and alumina supports. Extensive investigations of benzene hydroalkylation have been reported by Crone, J.M. and Suggit, R.M. et al. in US Patents 3,760,018, 3,760,019, 3,839,477, 3,784,617, 3,837,477, 3,869,523 and 3,926,842. The use of nickel/tungsten and cobalt/tungsten catalyst systems together with some rare-earth metals have been investigated.
Murtha, T.P. and co-workers investigated hydroalkylation catalysts extensively. Their work is described in US Patents 4,094,918, 4,093,671, 4,094,920, 4,122,125, 4,118,434, 4,152,362, 4,219,689, 4,268,699 and 4,329,531. Aromatic hydrocarbons were contacted under hydroalkylation conditions and in the presence of hydrogen with a catalyst comprising a platinum compound or other Group VIII noble metal supported on a nickel and rare-earth treated crystalline zeolite which had been calcined to produce an acidic support. Finally in European Patent 0338734 Makkee, M. discloses a reductive alkylation (hydroalkylation) process in which a monocycloalkyl aromatic hydrocarbon or a substituted monocycloalkyl aromatic hydrocarbon is prepared by contacting, respectively, an aromatic hydrocarbon or alkyl substituted aromatic hydrocarbon with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst comprising ruthenium and nickel supported on zeolite beta. Optionally the catalyst can also include a rare-earth metal or tungsten. The hydroalkylation occurs through the partial hydrogenation of the aromatic hydrocarbon to a cycloalkene. The cycloalkene then reacts with the aromatic hydrocarbon or alkyl substituted aromatic hydrocarbon to obtain the desired monocycloalkyl aromatic hydrocarbon or substituted monocycloalkyl aromatic hydrocarbon. In a first aspect the present invention provides a catalyst for hydroalkylating an aromatic hydrocarbon, the catalyst comprising a molecular sieve material having an acid function, a hydrogenation component and a shape selective function wherein the molecular sieve material has a pore size that is capable of accommodating molecules of the products to be produced and excluding molecules of reactants that are too large. In a second aspect the present invention provides a process for hydroalkylating an aromatic hydrocarbon, the process comprising contacting an aromatic hydrocarbon with hydrogen in the presence of the catalyst. The specific size constraints of different molecular sieve framework structures limit the reactants and the size of product molecules through product selectivity and active site selectivity. The controlling function is the rate of diffusion of product away from the reactive sites, through the pores and out of the crystallite. Reactant selectivity is based on the exclusion of a potential reactant by its size and the size of the pore. Product shape is controlled by the volume available at the active site which precludes the formation of too bulky intermediates at the site.
The term "molecular sieve" is all inclusive in that it embraces all materials that exhibit shape selectivity, regardless of composition or degree of crystallinity. The molecular sieve characteristic of the material exists where the framework structure creates a porous regular array of apertures. The apertures are of a size as to be able to take up molecules into their porous structure whilst rejecting others on the basis of their larger effective molecular dimensions.
Although zeolites are considered the primary molecular sieves [zeolites are crystalline aluminosilicates which are three dimensional structures arising from a framework of [SiO4]4- and [AlO4]5- coordinated polyhedra linked by their corner atoms] and are of major importance in the invention, other non-aluminosilicate materials, such as some carbons and silicas, have molecular sieve properties. Also an ever-increasing number of crystalline porous substances are being synthesised containing co-ordination polyhedra of elements other than just silicon or aluminium. Candidate elements for such isomorphous replacement are for example 6a, and B, close to A1 in Group III of the Periodic Table and Ge, close to Si in Group IV.
Other compounds based on the linkage of [PO4]3- coordination polyhedra are known. Typical examples are the "AlPO4" substances prepared by Union Carbide corporation's research laboratories. They are crystalline, have three dimensional structures, are porous and have been classed as molecular sieves. The overall framework charge of pure AlPO4's is neutral, they lack ion exchange properties and thus their catalytic activity is limited. However, other similar compounds designated SAPO's have structures of Si, Al and P in tetrahedral framework sites, have a negative charge and hence ion exchange properties. Further, the compounds have been extended to include MeAPOs (Me=metal), framework structures incorporating some metals from Groups III, IV, V, VI, VII and VIII of the Periodic Table of Elements. Studies have shown that some of these materials have high catalytic activity.
Also of interest are the large number of molecularly engineered layer structures (MELS) and the pillared interlayered clays (PILC) that fill the pore size and activity gap between zeolites and the larger pore amorphous gel catalysts. They are high surface area solids with unique structures that have large pores more useful for forming the multi-ring aromatic or naphthenic molecules that are too large for small pore conventional zeolites. Materials have been developed for high thermal, reaction and regeneration stability with novel catalytic activity provided by the interlayer charged species in, for example, layered metal hydroxides or by the pillaring cations propping open the layers of sheet minerals or clays such as montmorillonite, smectite and hectorite. The molecular sieve sorption properties of these materials and their compositional diversity makes them a versatile group of potential catalysts.
Molecular sieves with an ion exchange capacity have an increased pore size control ability in that the exchange of ions may increase or reduce the pore dimensions to sizes comparable to the dimension of the reactant molecules and/or the potential product. Moreover ion exchanges can be used to place cations into specific framework sites so as to create active sites to which reactant molecules can be attracted thus promoting the bond distortion and rupture essential to molecular rearrangements. Another feature of ion exchange is that it provides a route for the introduction of metal cations which can subsequently be reduced to catalytically active metal particles. This introduces a bifunctional nature to the molecular sieve.
Molecular sieves derive their acidity or catalytic activity from the proton associated with the framework aluminium.
This Brønsted acid site arises from the creation of "hydroxyls" within the pore structure which are usually formed by ammonium exchange followed by a calcination step. In high silica zeolites these "protonated" species can be made by direct exchange with mineral acids. In this form the hydroxyls are protons associated with negatively charged framework oxygen linked into alumina tetrahedra creating the Brønsted sites. These protons have great mobility particularly above 200°C, and at 550°C they lose water forming Lewis acid sites. The Lewis sites in turn are unstable, especially in the presence of water vapour and an annealing process occurs with the ejection of Al from the. framework which becomes more stable (dealumination). The size exclusion and steric inhibition together with the intermolecular forces between the constituents of the molecular sieve and the sorbate molecules offer opportunities for unique selectivities based on competitive sorption properties of various molecular sieves. Variables such as the silica to alumina ratio, the nature of the cation species and the geometry of the channels (unidimensional, multi-dimensional or interconnecting with super cages) are important considerations for the catalyst. They also contribute to catalyst's stability, reduce its coking propensity and increase its amenability to regeneration.
In the present invention the process feed or starting material for conversion to specialty chemicals and/or jet and diesel fuel boiling range products or blendstock is an aromatic or aromatic containing hydrocarbon, preferably containing benzene and/or an alkyl substituted aromatic hydrocarbon. The alkyl substitute may be less than 10 carbon atoms, preferably 1 to 5 carbon atoms. The most preferred alkyl substituent is methyl. There may be one or more alkyl and/or aromatic substituents on the aromatic nucleus. Examples of suitable starting material include any or a mixture of benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene, the xylenes, trimethyl benzenes, tetramethyl benzenes, biphenyl and alkyl substituted biphenyls.
The starting material may contain an aromatic or mixture of aromatics in any other liquid or gas mixture which comprises 0 to 95 volume percent of the feed stream. The aromatic feed mass hourly space velocity (MHSV) may range between 0.1 and 100 hr-1, preferably between 1 and 50 hr-1.
In the aromatics hydroalkylation process the feed may be introduced to the catalyst in a reactor under a wide range of conditions. It is preferred that hydrogen be present at pressures between 1 and 200 atmospheres, more preferably between 1 and 100 atmospheres. Further, the hydrogen feed rate lies preferably in a range from 0.2 and 5 mole of hydrogen per mole of aromatic feed and more preferably between 0.2 and 1.5 mole/mole of aromatic feed.
The reaction temperature is not particularly critical, however, it preferably ranges from 80°C to 350°C.
The hydroalkylation process may be carried out in a fixed bed reactor with the aromatic feed and hydrogen contacting the catalyst in an upflow or downflow arrangement. It is also possible to use a countercurrent flow of hydrogen and the aromatic feedstock over the catalyst. Although a fixed bed reactor is described any other type of reactor may be used, for example, fluid bed, slurry phase stirred reactor etc. The invention provides a catalyst comprising a molecular sieve support with a pore or channel structure of sufficient size for the entry of reactants and departure of products and an active site selectivity to aromatic hydroalkylation products. The molecular sieve desirably has, at least what is termed a medium to large pore size formed by the framework structure. The pores or channels of the molecular sieve structure should be greater than 5Å and should be preferably 2-dimensional and more preferably 3-dimensional in nature and preferably be interconnected. The molecular sieve support may be selected from the group of aluminosilicate zeolites consisting of zeolite beta, Nu-2, EU-1, ZSM-4, ZSM-5, ZSM-5/ZSM-11, ZSM-12, ZSM-20, ZSM-23, ZSM-35, ZSM-38, ZSM-47, ZSM-48, ZSM-50, Type X, Type Y, EMC-2, CSZ-1, ECR-30 mordenite, offretite, zeolite L, zeolite omega and zeolite PHI. It may also be selected from any metal substituted zeolite whereby some or all of the aluminium and/or the silicon of the above zeolites has been replaced by one or more elements from the Groups II to VIII of the Periodic Table of Elements for example Ga, B, Fe, Cr, Mn, V, Ti, Ge, As, Be etc. The molecular sieve support may be selected from the aluminophosphates (AlPO4's), silicoaluminophosphates (SAPOs), metalloaluminophosphates (MeAPOs) particularly VPI-5, AlPO-5, SAPO-5, SAPO-11, SAPO-31, SAPO-36, SAPO-37, SAPO-40, SAPO-41, CoAPO-50 and other metal substituted materials of similar structure e.g. BeGeAPO-11 and AsBeAPO-31 etc.
The molecular sieve used in the process of this invention may include, in the as synthesised form, exchangeable cations such as lithium, sodium, potassium, caesium, rubidium, beryllium, calcium, magnesium, strontium, barium etc. These cations may be partially or completely replaced with other different cations. Particularly preferred are rare earth metal ions, transition metal ions (or mixtures of these ions) and other ions such as hydrogen and ammonium. The replacement of the initial ions should not alter the basic structure of the molecular sieve support and preferably the amount of ions exchanged onto the sieve is as much as can be achieved. The rare earth metal may be selected from the group consisting of cerium, lanthanum, praseodymium, neodymium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium or mixtures thereof.
A preferred aspect of the molecular sieve is that it has an acidic function obtained by ion exchange and/or
impregnation by ammonium nitrate, ammonium fluoride, ammonium chloride, etc., followed by calcination in air at between 200°C and 800°C.
The molecular sieve may be used in the process as prepared or after calcining in air or after calcining and/or treatment by ion exchange, impregnation and/or by incipient wetness techniques with inorganic and/or organic metal or ammonium containing compounds. When treating the molecular sieve aqueous and/or non-aqueous solutions may be used. The preferred catalyst of this invention contains, after treatment an active metal or metals from Group Ib, IIb, IIIb, VIb, VIIb and VIII of the Periodic Table of Elements in quantities of from 0.1% to 25 wt% of the catalyst. Most preferred are those elements which impart a hydrogenation component to the support. Generally this includes one or more metals from copper, chromium, cobalt, nickel, tungsten, molybdenum and zinc.
The catalyst may contain an additional element or elements, from Groups V, VI, VII and VIII of the Periodic Table which may act as a promoter. The promoter or promoters may be added by ion exchange, impregnation, and/or precipitation from aqueous and/or non-aqueous solutions of inorganic or organic compounds. Further the promoter may be also added by dry mixing an easily decomposable compound such as an acetate, nitrate, chloride, bromide, carbonyl, sulphide etc. The promoter may be from 0.001% to 10 wt% of the catalyst. The preferred promoters may be silver, copper, platinum, palladium, ruthenium, rhenium, iridium or rhodium or mixtures thereof.
The catalyst containing the metal compounds may be activated by reduction. This reduction may be carried out in a 5% to 100% hydrogen atmosphere at a temperature from 50° to 600°C at a pressure from 0 to 200 atmospheres and for 5 minutes to 24 hours.
The molecular sieve may be combined, dispersed or otherwise intimately mixed and pressed with an inorganic oxide matrix in proportions that result in a product containing 10 wt% to 100 wt% of catalyst in the final product. Matrices which impart desirable properties to the catalyst such as increased strength and attrition resistance to the catalyst and aid in dissipation of the heat of reaction are preferred. Oxides of silica, aluminium, zirconium, titanium, chromium, etc. may be used.
The present invention provides a catalyst and process for hydroalkylation of aromatic compounds. In a preferred form of the invention there is provided a catalyst comprising copper, nickel and a rare earth element supported on a molecular sieve having a medium to large interconnected 3-dimensional channel structure. The preferred molecular sieve may consist of zeolite Type X, Type Y, ZSM 20 or zeolite beta, or any combination thereof. The copper content of the catalyst may lie in the range from 2 to 25 wt% of the catalyst, the nickel content from 1 to 25 wt% and the rare earth elements from 0.2 to 15 wt%.
The active metals may be promoted by an additional element or elements which further enhance the activity, selectivity, stability and/or regenerability of the catalyst. The preferred promoter is platinum or ruthenium and the content may lie in the range 0.001 to 2 wt% of the catalyst.
The process of the present invention may be used for hydroalkylating aromatic compounds, boiling in the gasoline range, to yield compounds boiling in the jet and/or diesel fuel range. This enhances the jet and diesel fuel fraction of a hydrocarbon stream and provides a method for reducing the benzene and total aromatic content of gasoline. The US "Clean Air Act of 15th November 1990 requires that benzene in gasoline be restricted to 1% by volume while the total aromatics are to be less than 25% by volume.
The process of the present invention may be used for hydroalkylating an essentially pure compound to obtain a more valuable product or specialty chemical, for example benzene may be hydroalkylated to cyclohexylbenzene.
In the process any hydroalkylated product or compounds from the hydroalkylation reactor may be further purified after separation from the unreacted feed. The feed may be recycled while the product may be further treated to a fully saturated product by feeding it, with hydrogen into a hydrogenation unit operating at conditions and with a catalyst familiar to those within the industry. For example, the hydroalkylated product of benzene, cyclohexylbenzene may be further hydrogenated to bicyclohexyl. Purified product may be sold as specialty chemicals while less purified product may be used as a jet or diesel fuel boiling range product or blendstock.
To illustrate the invention the following examples have been included. The examples are not to be considered limiting on the scope of the invention.
Example 1
The following amounts of material were combined, well stirred and sealed in a stainless steel autoclave
Sodium aluminate 12.5g
Tetraethylammonium hydroxide (40%) 263g
Ludox™ HS (40% SiO2) 521 g
Water 188g The autoclave was heated to 150°C with stirring and held at that temperature for 6 days. The resulting crystalline material was identified as zeolite beta (XRD, US Patent 3,308,069) and after washing twice with water and calcining overnight at 600°C had a chemical composition of 2.4% Al2O3, 97.2% SiO2 and 0.01% Na2O.
40g of the zeolite beta was ion exchanged with ammonium nitrate three times and then exchanged with a nickel, rare earth solution (1 litre containing 29.1 g of Ni (NO3)2.6H2O and 0.5g of mischmetal dissolved in acid). The zeolite was collected, washed, dried and then impregnated with 11.8g of copper acetate, 12.4g of nickel nitrate and 0.1g of ruthenium chloride dissolved in 200g of water. The mixture was stirred until a firm paste was formed and then dried overnight at 140°C, calcined at 550°C, pressed, crushed and sized to a -500 + 250 μm fraction.
Example 2
287g of rare earth exchanged zeolite Type Y (Strem) was further exchanged with nickel nitrate. This was dried and calcined at 550°C then added to a 1000 ml solution containing 79.16 g of copper acetate, 83.2g of nickel nitrate, 0.7g of ruthenium chloride. The mixture was heated and stirred to a paste, dried at 140°C, calcined at 550°C, pressed, crushed and sized to a -500 + 250 μm fraction. The above described catalysts were used in hydroalkylation trials of aromatic compounds in a pressure fixed bed, down flow reactor. The aromatic compounds used in trial 3 were derived from a reformate. The operating conditions as well as the results are listed in the Table. The trials indicate that the supporting molecular sieve with the ruthenium promoted copper, nickel and rare earth active metals is an active catalyst for hydroalkylation of aromatic feeds to higher boiling point compounds suitable for distillate feedstock or, if purified for specialty chemicals.
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1. A catalyst for hydroalkylating an aromatic hydrocarbon, the catalyst comprising a molecular sieve material having an acid function, a hydrogenation component and a shape selective function wherein the molecular sieve material has a pore size that is capable of accommodating molecules of the products to be produced and excluding molecules of reactants that are too large.
2. A catalyst according to claim 1 wherein the hydrogenation component comprises an active metal or metals selected from Groups IB, IIB, IIIB, VIB, VIIB and VIII of the Periodic Table of elements.
3. A catalyst according to claim 2 wherein the hydrogenation component is selected from a group consisting of copper, chromium, cobalt, nickel, tungsten, molybdenum and zinc.
4. A catalyst according to claim 3 wherein the hydrogenation component is copper, chromium, zinc or copper and nickel.
5. A catalyst according to claim 4 wherein the hydrogenation component comprises copper and nickel.
6. A catalyst according to any one of claims 1 to 5 wherein the hydrogenation component comprises from 0.1% to 25% by weight of the catalyst.
7. A catalyst according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the molecular sieve material is selected from a group of aluminosilicate zeolites consisting of zeolite beta, Nu-2, EU-1, ZSM-4, ZSM-5, ZSM-5/ZSM-11, ZSM-12, ZSM-20, ZSM-23, ZSM-35, ZSM-38, ZSM-47, ZSM-48, ZSM-50, Type X, Type Y, EMC-2, CSZ-1, ECR-30 mordenite, offretite, zeolite L, zeolite omega and zeolite PHI.
8. A catalyst according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the catalyst has pores having a size greater than 5A.
9. A catalyst according to any one of the preceding claims wherein exchangeable cations in the molecular sieve material are at least partially replaced with rare earth metal ions.
10. A catalyst according to claim 9 wherein the rare earth metal is selected from a group consisting of cerium, lanthanum, praseodymium, neodymium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, lutetium and mixtures thereof.
11. A catalyst according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the acid function is obtained by ion exchange and/or impregnation by a suitable ammonium salt followed by calcination in air at a temperature in a range from 200°C to 800°C.
12. A catalyst according to claim 11 wherein the ammonium salt is ammonium fluoride.
13. A catalyst according to any one of the preceding claims wherein the catalyst includes a suitable promoter selected from an element of Groups V, VI, VII and VIII of the Periodic Table.
14. A catalyst according to claim 13 wherein the promoter comprises from 0.001% to 10% by weight of the catalyst.
15. A catalyst according to claim 13 or claim 14 wherein the promoter is selected from a group consisting of silver, copper, platinum, palladium, ruthenium, rhenium, iridium, rhodium, and mixtures thereof.
16. A catalyst according to claim 15 wherein the promoter is ruthenium or platinum.
17. A catalyst for hydroalkylating an aromatic hydrocarbon, the catalyst comprising copper, nickel and a rare earth element supported on a molecular sieve material having a medium to large interconnected 3-dimensional channel structure.
18. A catalyst according to claim 17 wherein the molecular sieve material is selected from a group consisting of zeolite Type X, Type Y, ZSM-20, zeolite beta and combinations thereof.
19. A catalyst according to claim 17 or claim 18 wherein the copper comprises from 2 to 25 weight % of the catalyst, the nickel comprises from 1 to 25 weight % of the catalyst and the rare earth element from 0.2 to 15 weight % of the catalyst.
20. A catalyst according to any one of claims 17 to 19 wherein the catalyst includes from 0.001 to 2 weight % of a promoter based on the weight of catalyst.
21. A catalyst according to claim 20 wherein the promoter is ruthenium or platinum.
22. A process for hydroalkylating an aromatic hydrocarbon, the process comprising contacting an aromatic hydrocarbon with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst according to any one of the preceding claims.
23. A process according to claim 22 wherein the aromatic hydrocarbon includes benzene.
24. A process according to claim 22 or claim 23 wherein the aromatic hydrocarbon includes an alkyl substituted aromatic hydrocarbon.
25. A process according to claim 24 wherein the alkyl substituent comprises less than 10 carbon atoms.
26. A process according to claim 25 wherein the alkyl substituent comprises from 1 to 5 carbon atoms.
27. A process according to claim 26 wherein the alkyl substituent is a methyl group.
28. A process according to claim 22 wherein the aromatic hydrocarbon is selected from a group consisting of benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene, a xylene, a trimethyl benzene, a tetramethyl benzene, biphenyl, an alkyl substituted biphenyl and mixtures thereof.
29. A process according to any one of claims 22 to 28 wherein the process comprises contacting a stream of aromatic hydrocarbons having a mass hourly velocity in a range from 0.2 to 100 hr-1 with hydrogen in the presence of the catalyst.
30. A process according to claim 29 wherein the mass hourly velocity lies in a range from 1 to 50 hr-1.
31. A process according to any one of claims 22 to 30 wherein the hydrogen is present at a pressure in a range from 1 to 200 atmospheres.
32. A process according to any one of claims 22 to 31 wherein the hydrogen is fed to a contact zone at a rate in a range from 0.2 to 5 mole per mole of aromatic hydrocarbon.
33. A process according to claim 32 wherein the hydrogen is fed to a contact zone at a rate in a range from 0.2 to 1.5 mole per mole of aromatic hydrocarbon.
34. A process according to any one of claims 22 to 33 wherein the aromatic hydrocarbon is contacted with hydrogen at a temperature in a range from 80 to 350°C.
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