Patent ID: 11932817
Assignee: CHEVRON PHILLIPS CHEMICAL COMPANY LP
Field: Basic materials chemistry (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C  B | IPC B  C

Claim 11:
12. A process for operating a reforming reactor system, the process comprising:
operating a plurality of reactors in a reactor series to produce a reactor series effluent comprising an aromatic hydrocarbon from a hydrocarbon feed comprising a hydrocarbon, wherein operating the plurality of reactors comprises directing a portion of the hydrocarbon feed to form a supplemental feed, introducing the supplemental feed into at least one reactor downstream of the first reactor in the reactor series, thus bypassing the first reactor with the portion of the hydrocarbon feed, and introducing a remainder portion of the hydrocarbon feed into the first reactor of the reactor series, wherein each of the reactors within the plurality of reactors contains a catalyst comprising at least one Group VIII metal, a zeolitic support, and at least one halogen and capable of catalyzing the reaction of at least a portion of the hydrocarbon in the hydrocarbon feed into the aromatic hydrocarbon, thus providing the reactor series effluent.