Patent ID: 8884088

Claim:
A dehydrogenation process comprising: (a) providing a hydrocarbon stream comprising at least one non-aromatic six-membered ring compound and at least one five-membered ring compound; (b) producing a first reaction product stream comprising the step of contacting at least a portion of the hydrocarbon stream with a first catalyst having an alpha value of less than 10 comprising at least one support and at least one metal component, and under conditions effective to convert at least a portion of the at least one non-aromatic six-membered ring compound to at least one aromatic compound; and (c) producing a second reaction product stream comprising the step of contacting at least a portion of the first reaction product stream with a second catalyst having an alpha value of greater than 10 and under conditions to convert at least a portion of the at least one five-membered ring compound to at least one paraffin, the second catalyst comprises at least one molecular sieve selected from the group consisting of AEL, AFI, MWW, MFI, MEL, MFS, MEI, MTW, EUO, MTT, HEU, FER, and/or TON structure type molecular sieve.