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Table 6.3
Industrial Process based upon solid acid catalysts
Manufacturing
Industrial Process
Catalyst
scale
(1)
Alkylation
H-ZSM-5
1 billion lb year
-
1
Hoechst Ag
(2)
o
-Xylene
isomerisation
to paraxylene
H-ZSM-5
120 000 t year
-
1
Mobil
(3)
Dehydration
Ion-exchange resin
20 000 t year
+
(4)
Catalytic cracking:
Heavy fractions
Calcined kaolin
50 000 bpd
Middle and light distillate
Ultrastable US-Y zeolite
40 000 bpd
700 000 t year
-
1
Sabric/Shell
(5)
Etherification
Ion-exchange resin
(6)
Hydrocracking process
ZSM-5
15 000 bpd
(7)
Hydration
Novel highly
8
0 000 t year
-
1
siliceous
H-ZSM-5
