Patent ID: 8795513

Claim:
A catalyst for hydrocracking of heavy oil, comprising a support which includes a crystalline aluminosilicate and a porous inorganic oxide excluding the crystalline aluminosilicate, with an active metal being supported on the support, wherein (a) the support comprises the crystalline aluminosilicate in an amount of 45% by mass or greater and smaller than 60% by mass and the porous inorganic oxide excluding the crystalline aluminosilicate in an amount of greater than 40% by mass and 55% by mass or smaller, based on a sum of an amount of the crystalline aluminosilicate and an amount of the porous inorganic oxide excluding the crystalline aluminosilicate, (b) the active metal is at least one kind of metal selected from metals belonging to Groups 6, 8, 9, and 10 of the Periodic Table, and (c) the catalyst for hydrocracking of heavy oil has a distribution of pores in which an entire pore volume of pores defined as pores having a diameter of 5 to 1000 nm is 0.40 dm 3 /kg or greater, a volume of intermediate mesopores having a diameter of 10 nm or larger and smaller than 20 nm accounts for 60% or greater of the entire pore volume, and the pore volume of macropores defined as pores having a diameter of larger than 50 nm and 1000 nm or smaller accounts for 10% or greater of the entire pore volume.