Gulf Hydrodesulfurization

Gulf HDS A process for hydrorefining and hydrocracking petroleum residues in order to make fuels and feeds for catalytic cracking. Developed by the Gulf Research Development Company. See also hydrodesulfurization. 

Table 9-8 Feedstock and Product Properties for the Gulf Resid Hydrodesulfurization Process... 

Gulf resid hydrodesulfurization process a process for the desulfurization of heavy feedstocks to produce low-sulfur fuel oils or catalytic cracking (q.v.) feedstocks. 

Gulfining [Gulf refining] A hydrodesulfurization process adapted for heavy gas oils. Developed by Gulf Research Development Company in the early 1950s. 

An extensive study of heteroatom removal has been carried out at the Gulf Research and Development Company. This and a few other studies have been summarized by Shah and Cronauer (55) and Shah and Krishnamurthy (56) and they will not be repeated here. Instead, in the following pages, a few other reported works on hydrodesulfurization (HDS), hydrodeoxygenation (HDO), and hydro-denitrogenation (HDN) of real systems and model compounds, that may be relevant to coal liquefaction, are briefly discussed. 

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