Continuous reforming process

FIGURE 4 Toluene manufacture by a continuous reforming process. 

Octanizing A continuous reforming process for making high-octane gasoline. Developed by IFP. Licensed to ANCAP, Uruguay, in 1999. 

Octanizing A continuous reforming process for making high-octane gasoline. Developed by IFP, now Axens, from Dualforming. Licensed to ANCAP, Uruguay, iu 1999. By 2005, more than 35 units had been licensed worldwide. A unit was licensed to Bharat Petrochemical Corp for use in its Mumbai refinery in 2010. 

The modern reforming process operates with continuous regeneration of the catalyst, at low pressure (2 to 5 bar) and high temperature (510-530°C). 

Fluid Hydroforming An early catalytic reforming process in which the catalyst was used in a continuously regenerated fluidized bed. Developed by the MW Kellogg Company. 

Hon (Informing A continuous catalytic reforming process for producing aromatic concentrates and high-octane gasoline. It used a fixed bed of a platinum catalyst. Developed in the 1950s by the Houdiy Process Corporation. 

Steam-methane reforming is a continuous catalytic process that has been employed for hydrogen production over a period of several decades and has been favored as the method of choice for the production of hydrogen in areas where natural gas is in plentiful supply (Bailey, 1992). 

Houdriforming a continuous catalytic reforming process for producing aro-... 

Penex process a continuous, nonregenerative process for isomerization of C5 and/or Q fractions in the presence of hydrogen (from reforming) and a platinum catalyst. 

Steam-methane reforming a continuous catalytic process for hydrogen production. 

To date, work has been done on determining the production of both synthesis gas and hydrogen via a plasma-arc reforming process. This work will continue as well as the optimisation of the processes and the investigation of possible integration with the hybrid sulphur process. 

A continuation of this application of the second-law analyses is an examination of the various irreversibilities in the reformer process for potential improvements. The chief sources of thermodynamic irreversibilities (with the associated exergy destruction) are (1) frictional losses, (2) heat transfer with a finite temperature difference, (3) chemical reaction far from equilibrium, and (4) diffusion. 

Thus, the reforming process becomes stable as long as these reactions are continuously taking place. The onset temperature of the reforming process around 750 °C has been directly related to the temperature at which Mo2C is able to produce Mo metal. 

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