Inventors:
William John Murphy - Baton Rouge LA
Ian Alfred Cody - Baton Rouge LA
Bernard George Silbernagel - Annandale NJ
Assignee:
Exxon Research and Engineering Company - Annandale NJ
International Classification:
C10G 6902
US Classification:
208 58, 208 88, 208 89, 208 18, 208134, 208135, 208137, 208209, 208254 H, 208 60, 208 61, 208 78, 208 79, 585310, 585734, 585739
Abstract:
A method for producing a lube basestock from a waxy feed is disclosed in which a feed containing to 50 wt % or more of wax is hydrotreated and stripped to lower the nitrogen and sulfur content of the feed. The feed is then hydroisomerized under conditions to 370° C. hydrocatalytically dewaxed with a catalyst comprising a mixture of a catalytically active metal on a zeolite dewaxing catalyst and an amorphous catalyst, or alternatively is solvent dewaxed and then hydrocatalytically dewaxed with the just described catalyst.