Patent ID: 7470645

Claim:
A process for treating a hydrocarbon feed comprising: contacting a feed containing at least one hydrocarbon component with a catalytically effective amount of a catalyst which includes at least one zeolite supported on a porous non-crystalline inorganic oxide under reaction conditions sufficient to effect conversion of said hydrocarbon component, said porous inorganic oxide having at least 97 volume percent mesopores based on micropores and mesopores of the porous inorganic oxide, having surface area of about 400-1100 m 2 /g and having at least one x-ray diffraction peak between 0.3 and 3 degrees in 2θ, wherein said zeolite is incorporated into and bound to the molecular structure of the inorganic oxide such that zeolite particles are surrounded by a three-dimensional network of randomly interconnected mesoporous channels.