Patent ID: 11884888
Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C  B | IPC B  C

Claim 3:
4. The process of claim 3, wherein effluents from naphtha hydrotreating of straight run naphtha comprise a heavy fraction of naphtha-range hydrocarbons that is one or more of the sources of naphtha-range hydrocarbons for reforming, and a light fraction of naphtha-range hydrocarbons, the process further comprising:
aromatizing all or a portion of the light fraction of naphtha-range hydrocarbons to produce an aromatic hydrocarbon stream comprising at least C6 and C7 aromatic hydrocarbons, and
combining all or a portion of the aromatic hydrocarbon stream from aromatizing with the reformate reacting in the presence of the hydrogenation catalyst.