Patent ID: 7799210

Claim:
A process for removing sulfur from a sulfur-containing naphtha feed comprising: (1) contacting the feed with a hydrotreating catalyst under hydrotreating conditions such that at least 50 wt. % of olefins in the feed are preserved and at least 95 wt. % of the sulfur compounds in the feed are converted to produce a hydrotreated effluent, (2) contacting the hydrotreated effluent with a mercaptan removal agent to produce a second effluent containing less than 30 wppm total sulfur, based on second effluent, the mercaptan removal being at least one of mercaptan extraction, mercaptan removal by depressurization, mercaptan removal by thermal treatment, physical adsorption, or membrane separation, and (3) contacting the second effluent with an adsorbent to produce a naphtha product containing less than 10 wppm total sulfur, based on naphtha product, the adsorbent consisting essentially of at least one reactive metal in a metallic state on an inorganic support, wherein the at least one reactive metal consists of one or more elements selected from Groups 1, 2, and 5-12 and wherein the inorganic support consists of one or more support materials selected from alumina, silica, silica-alumina, magnesia, titania, zirconia, hafnia, carbon, and a clay.