ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,776, issued on July 14, was assigned to BASF Corp. (Florham Park, N.J.).
"Alumina matrix modification in FCC catalyst composition" was invented by Xingtao Gao (Iselin, N.J.), David M. Stockwell (Iselin, N.J.) and Junmei Wei (Iselin, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology provides a fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalyst composition that includes a Y-zeolite that includes a rare earth element or oxide thereof and an alumina matrix, wherein the alumina matrix includes y-AhCb or pseudo-boehmite and a dopant; and the dopant is selected from a Group IIIB metal, Group IVB metal, Group IV A element, Group VA element, an...