Composition and a method of making and use of such composition

1. A method of making a composition, wherein said method comprises:

providing a support material;

selecting an organic additive from a group of organic additives, wherein said organic additive has a complexation energy and is used for incorporation thereof into said support material in the preparation of said composition that provides for a high activity catalyst composition, and wherein said selecting of said organic additive from said group is done by utilizing a correlation model for estimating a predicted catalytic activity for said high activity catalyst composition as a function of an associated complexation energy associated with each of said organic additive of said group; and

incorporating said organic additive into said support material to provide said support material having incorporated therein said organic additive to thereby provide an additive-impregnated composition.

2. A method as recited in claim 1 , which further comprises:

incorporating a metal-containing solution into said support material to provide said support material having incorporated therein a metal component.

3. A method as recited in claim 2 , which further comprises:

prior to said incorporating of said organic additive into said support material, drying said support material having incorporated therein said metal component so as to provide for a volatiles content therein that is in the range of from 1 to 20 wt. % LOI.

4. A method as recited in claim 3 , which further comprises:

contacting said additive-impregnated composition under suitable hydrogen treatment conditions with hydrogen to thereby provide a hydrogen-treated composition.

5. A method as recited in claim 4 , which further comprises:

contacting said hydrogen-treated composition under suitable sulfur treatment conditions with a sulfur compound to thereby provide a sulfided composition.

6. A method as recited in claim 5 , which further comprises:

preparing a plurality of testing catalyst compositions, wherein each of said testing catalyst compositions of said plurality of testing catalyst compositions is prepared with a separately selected testing additive, and wherein each of said separately selected testing additive has a characteristic complexation energy;

determining a catalytic activity for each of said testing catalyst compositions of said plurality of testing catalyst compositions to generate a data set of said catalytic activity versus said characteristic complexation energy; and

generating said correlation model using said data set, wherein said correlation model is a correlation between said catalytic activity and said characteristic complexation energy, and wherein said correlation model provides for estimating said predicted catalytic activity of said high activity catalyst composition that has been prepared with said organic additive having said complexation energy.

7. A method as recited in claim 6 , wherein said organic additive is selected from a group consisting of amine compounds and said complexation energy of said organic additive has an absolute value of greater than 490 kcal/mol.

8. A method as recited in claim 7 , wherein said additive-impregnated composition comprises said metal component selected from the group of Group 9 or Group 10 metals consisting of cobalt and nickel present in said additive impregnated composition in an amount in the range of from 0.5 wt.% to 20 wt.%, and Group 6 metals consisting of molybdenum and tungsten present in said additive impregnated composition in an amount in the range of from 5 wt. % to 50 wt. %, wherein the weight percents are based on the weight of the dry support material with the metal component as the elemental form regardless of its actual form.

9. A method as recited in claim 8 , wherein said support material is a shaped support comprising a porous refractory oxide selected from the group of refractory oxides consisting of silica, alumina, titania, zirconia, silica-alumina, silica-titania, silica-zirconia, titania-alumina, zirconia-alumina, silica-titania and combinations of two or more thereof; and wherein said shaped support has a surface area (as determined by the BET method) in the range of from 50 m2/g to 450 m2/g, a mean pore diameter in the range of from 50 to 200 angstroms (Å), and a total pore volume exceeding 0.55 cc/g.

10. A method as recited in claim 9 , wherein at least 75% of the available pore volume of said support material is filled with said organic additive.