Patent ID: 8062508

Claim:
A process of hydroprocessing a hydrocarbon feed comprising contacting the feed with hydrogen in the presence of a catalytically effective amount of a bimetallic bulk catalyst under catalytic conversion conditions including a pressure from about 5 bar to about 250 bar to form a hydrocarbon product, the two metals of the bimetallic bulk catalyst consisting of a Group VIII metal being nickel and a Group VIB metal being molbdenum or tungsten, wherein the bimetallic bulk catalyst is not amorphous, wherein the feed contains both sulfur and nitrogen, wherein the catalyst comprises at least about 85 wt % metal oxidic particles relative to the total weight of the bulk catalyst, with the remainder comprising one or more materials selected from the group of binder materials, conventional hydroprocessing catalysts, and cracking compounds, and wherein the bimetallic bulk catalyst has a relative weight activity at a pressure of 40 bar or above that is greater than an activity of a trimetallic bulk catalyst whose three metals consist of nickel, molybdenum, and tungsten at identical catalytic conversion conditions.