Patent ID: 8801920
Filing Date: 2014-08-12
Classification: C01B,C07C,C10G

Abstract:
1. A catalytic reforming process comprising: reforming a reformer feedstock that includes a naphtha stream in the presence of a catalyst to produce a gasoline reformate product stream; splitting the gasoline reformate product stream into one or more relatively benzene-rich reformate fractions and one or more relatively benzene-lean reformate fractions; recovering the one or more relatively benzene-lean reformate fractions as a first reformate gasoline pool component; hydrogenating the one or more relatively benzene-rich fractions to produce a cyclohexane-rich hydrogenated reformate effluent; recycling a portion of the cyclohexane-rich hydrogenated reformate effluent to constitute a portion of the reformer feedstock; and recovering the remaining portion of the cyclohexane rich hydrogenated reformate effluent as a second gasoline pool reformate component.