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Removal of indigenous metal impurities from an oil with phosphorus oxide-promoted alumina

  • US 4,192,736 A
  • Filed: 11/29/1978
  • Issued: 03/11/1980
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/29/1978
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a process for upgrading an oil selected from the group consisting of petroleum and syncrude oils, fractions and mixtures thereof containing at least a substantial content of at least one metal impurity selected from the group consisting of metal impurities indigenous to said oils, by contact thereof under oil demetallizing conditions with a solid consisting esentially of alumina containing an oxide promoter, the improvement comprising (1) carrying out said contact with an alumina having a pore volume of at least 0.3 cc per gram and said oxide promoter being phosphorus oxide in the range of from about 0.1 to 10 parts;

  • calculated as phosphorus, for each 100 parts of alumina in parts by weight.

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