Patent ID: 11939541
Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY
Field: Basic materials chemistry (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC C | IPC C

Claim 7:
8. The process of claim 7, wherein:
processing the naphtha product stream in the aromatics complex comprises catalytically reforming the naphtha to produce a reformate stream comprising benzene, toluene, and xylene, passing at least a portion of the reformate stream through one or more extractive distillation units to separate the benzene, toluene, and xylenes, produce a C1-C4 hydrocarbon recycle stream, and produce a C9+ hydrocarbon stream, and upgrading the toluene in a transalkylation unit to form additional benzene, xylenes, or both; and
the process further comprises passing the C1-C4 hydrocarbon recycle stream to the product separator to produce additional methane recycle stream, additional steam cracker recycle stream, or both and passing the C9+ hydrocarbon stream to the hydrotreater to produce additional C1 hydrocarbon stream, C2-C4 hydrocarbon stream, light C5+ hydrocarbon stream, heavy C5+ hydrocarbon stream, or combinations thereof.