Patent ID: 6426442
Filing Date: 2002-07-30
Classification: B01J,Y10S

Abstract:
A process for converting low carbon number aliphatic hydrocarbons to higher carbon number hydrocarbons comprising contacting a feedstream containing at least methane with a catalyst in the presence of CO, CO2 or mixtures thereof at conversion conditions to produce the higher carbon number hydrocarbons wherein said catalyst consisting essentially of a porous support selected from the group consisting of ZSM-5, FSM-16 and mixtures thereof, having dispersed thereon rhenium and a promoter metal selected from the group consisting of iron, cobalt, vanadium, manganese, gallium, zinc, chromium, molybdenum and mixtures thereof, and where the rhenium is present in an amount of about 3 to about 20 wt. % of the support.