Production of reformulated gasoline

Patent · Tue Aug 04 04:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:7190704

Schmidt, R J; Raghuram, S

This patent describes a process combination for producing a gasoline component from a naphtha feedstock. It comprises: contacting the naphtha feedstock in a reforming zone at reforming conditions with a reforming catalyst comprising a Group VIII metal on a refractory support to produce a reformate and a hydrogen-rich gas; separating the reformate, in a first separation zone, into a light hydrocarbon product and a heavy reformate; separating the heavy reformate, in a second separation zone, into a low-octane paraffin fraction and an aromatic-rich fraction; contacting a low-octane paraffin fraction in a paraffin-isomerization zone at primary isomerization conditions with a paraffin-isomerizing catalyst to produce an isomerized heavy-paraffin product; and, combining at least a portion of each of the aromatic-rich fraction and the isomerized heavy-paraffin product to produce the gasoline component.

• Assignee: UOP, Des Plaines, IL(United States)
• Patent Number(s): US 5135639; A
• Application Number: PPN: US 7-528403
• OSTI ID: 7190704
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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02 PETROLEUM
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CATALYTIC CRACKING
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COAL TAR OILS
CRACKING
DECOMPOSITION
DISTILLATES
ENERGY SOURCES
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
GASOLINE
HYDROCARBONS
LIQUID FUELS
NAPHTHA
OILS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PETROLEUM
PETROLEUM DISTILLATES
PETROLEUM FRACTIONS
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
PROCESSING
PYROLYSIS
REFINING
SEPARATION PROCESSES
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
VISCOSITY