Verfahren zur Regenerierung eines schwefelhaltigen Katalysators

1,130,446. Regeneration of sulphur-containing catalysts. ESSO RESEARCH & ENG. CO. 3 May, 1966[26 May, 1965], No. 19481/66. Heading B1E. [Also in Division C5] A sulphur-containing catalyst comprising a crystalline alumino-silicate zeolite is regenerated by first removing sulphur from the catalyst by contacting it with a halogen or a halogen-containing compound, optionally mixed with a carrier gas or with the feed-stock being processed, and subsequently contacting the catalyst with a free oxygen-containing gas. The halogen or halogen compounds specifically mentioned are chlorine, hydrogen chloride, methyl chloride, ethyl chloride, carbon tetrachloride, chloroform, tertiary butyl chloride, perchloroethane, methylene chloride, dichlorodifluoro-methane, bromotrichloro-methane, phosgene. The zeolite may be mordenite, faujasite, chabazite, gelinite, analcite, erionite, synthetic zeolites A, D, L, R, S, T, X, Y. For use it may be base-exchanged with ammonium or cations of metals of Groups IB to VIII (including RE metals), for example, NH 4 , Mg, Co, Ni, Zn, Ca, Cd, Cu, Fe, Ba, and optionally treated with a catalytic metal, for example Pt, Pd, Ir, Rh, Fe, Co, Ni, Mn, W, Ti, Zr, V, Hf, Zn, Cd, Sn, Pb, Al, Cr, Mo. The catalyst is preferably regenerated when its sulphur content is at least 1 wt.% by treatment with the halogen or halogen compound at 200‹F to 900‹F and pressures less than atmospheric to 2000 psig. followed by treatment with a free oxygen-containing gas at 750‹F to 1200‹F at a pressure from less than atmospheric to 300 psig.