Patent ID: 8247630

Claim:
A process for converting ethylbenzene to xylenes and isomerizing xylene in a feed stream comprising ethylbenzene and a non-equilibrium mixture of one or more xylenes comprising contacting the feed stream with a catalyst comprising MTW type zeolite having a silica/alumina mole ratio of between about 20:1 and 45:1, an alumina binder, platinum, and sulfur and a catalytically effective amount of at least one hydrogenation catalyst component and wherein the framework of the MTW-type zeolite contains aluminum and less than about 100 wt ppm gallium, under isomerization conditions said conditions including the presence of hydrogen in a mole ratio to hydrocarbon of at least about 0.5:1, and said feed stream comprising between about 1 and 60 mass-% ethylbenzene and 2 to 20 mass-% naphthenes, to provide a conversion product.