0 01 0 05 0 201surface area m sup 2 g lt 5 0 5 0 20avg pore diameter a not not 402 determined determinedpore size distribution pore volume in poresof diameter a 0 30 1 30 50 1 50 80 6 80 100 4100 150 7150 200 6200 300 10300 64sorption capacity wt h sub 2 o 0 0 0 9cyclohexane 0 1 0 7hexane 0 1 0 9sio sub 2 wt 14 8moo sub 3 wt 100 mo wt 66 7 67 4 54 8zn wt 0 013ash wt 95 7 83 1______________________________________ theoretical value two h 0 5 moo 3 catalysts were compared against moo 3 for metals sulfur ccr and asphaltene removal in shaker bomb experiments with arab light vacuum resid shaker bomb testing very closely simulates the resid upgrading activities observed in continuous downflow units see s m oleck and h s sherry fresh water manganese nodules as a catalyst for demetallizing and desulfurizing petroleum residua ind eng chem process des dev 16 4 525 1977 which is hereby incorporated by reference properties of the h 0 5 moo 3 catalyst are given in table 3 while the properties of the arab light vacuum resid are given in table 1 in a series of three experiments the h 0 5 moo 3 catalyst and the moo 3 were contacted with the resid in a shaker bomb apparatus at the following conditions ______________________________________oil catalyst wt wt 20temperature u00b0 c 400hydrogen pressure psig 2000reaction time min 80______________________________________ the shaker bomb apparatus is described in j w payne c w streed and e r kent the shaker bomb a new laboratory tool for studying thermal processes ind eng chem.