A Selective Octane-Enhancing FCC Catalyst Using ZRP Zeolite as an Active Component

A hetero-crystalline seeding method to prepare a unique MFI type zeolite with mesopores of ca. 4 nm diameter designated as the ZRP zeolite, which possesses high stability and selectivity and is used as component of FCC catalysts to produce high-octane gasoline and light olefins, was developed. With the DOCR and DOCP catalysts containing the ZRP zeolite modified by phosphorus-incorporation as the octaneenhancing catalysts, the commercial trial was carried out in a 0.8Mt/a RFCC unit with a feedstock composed of Daqing atmospheric residue. As compared to the base catalyst, the LPG+gasoline+LCO product yield obtained from this catalyst was increased by 0.53m%. Meanwhile, the RON and MON of gasoline was increased by 1.4 and 2.4 units, respectively. The higher increment of MON is attributable to the higher isoparaffines content in gasoline. This result indicates that the ZRP zeolite possesses higher isomerization selectivity.