Patent ID: 11896963
Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B  C | IPC B  C

Claim 0:
1. A process for upgrading a hydrocarbon feed, the process comprising: contacting the hydrocarbon feed with steam in the presence of a cracking catalyst at reaction conditions sufficient to cause at least a portion of hydrocarbons in the hydrocarbon feed to undergo one or more cracking reactions to produce a steam catalytic cracking effluent comprising light olefins, light aromatic compounds, or both, where:
the light olefins are selected from the group consisting of ethylene, propylene, butenes, and combinations thereof;
the light aromatic compounds are selected from the group consisting of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes, and combinations thereof;
the cracking catalyst consists essentially of a hierarchical mesoporous ZSM-5 zeolite; and
the hierarchical mesoporous ZSM-5 zeolite comprises a molar ratio of silica to alumina of from 10 to 40.