METHODS OF REGENERATING AROMATIZATION CATALYSTS Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC B01J23/96 B01J38/42 C10G35/06 

FIELD: chemistry.

SUBSTANCE: invention discloses and describes methods for treating or regenerating spent catalysts containing a transition metal and a catalyst substrate, reforming methods, and a regenerated catalyst produced by the said methods. The method for treating the spent catalyst comprises: (1) contacting the spent catalyst with a halogen-containing stream containing chlorine and fluorine to produce a halogenated spent catalyst. The halogen-containing stream contains less than 100 ppm weight of the oxygen-containing compounds; (2) contacting the halogenated spent catalyst with a purge stream containing essentially inert gas; and (3) contacting the halogenated spent catalyst with a coke-removal gas stream containing oxygen; where the stream of coke oven gas contains less than 50 ppm weight of the halogenated compounds after step (2). Another method of treating the catalyst comprises: (i) bringing the spent catalyst into contact with a halogen-containing stream containing chlorine and fluorine to produce a halogenated spent catalyst; and (ii) bringing the halogenated spent catalyst into contact with a coke oven gas stream containing oxygen after step (i). In the halogenation step, fluorine and chlorine can be used together, or fluorine and chlorine can be used sequentially. The reforming method comprises: (a) bringing the hydrocarbon feed into contact with the aromatization catalyst under reforming conditions in the reactor system to produce an aromatic product; (b) carrying out step (a) for a period of time sufficient to form a spent aromatization catalyst; (c) bringing the spent aromatization catalyst into contact with a halogen-containing stream containing chlorine and fluorine to produce a halogenated spent catalyst; and (d) bringing the halogenated spent catalyst into contact with a coke oven gas stream containing oxygen.

EFFECT: spent catalyst, which was initially halogenated, has a significantly lower start-up temperature than the spent catalyst, which was first subjected to the coke removal, demonstrating the unexpected advantage of carrying out the halogenation step prior to the carbon annealing step, the advantage is maintained, when halogens are added sequentially prior to the coke removal step.

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