Reforming gasoline

In the petroleum industry the term gum refers to the dark coloured polymer formed by the oxidation of certain unsaturated compounds of cracked or reformed gasolines. 

Gasoline reformate Gasoline, reformulated Gasolines Gas permeation Gas-phase adsorptu... 

The main use of naphtha in the petroleum industry is in gasoline production. Light naphtha is normally blended with reformed gasoline (from catalytic reforming units) to increase its volatility and to reduce the aromatic content of the product gasoline. 

In the petroleum refining industry, hydrogen is essentially obtained from catalytic naphtha reforming, where it is a coproduct with reformed gasoline. 

Raw materials for obtaining benzene, which is needed for the production of alkylbenzenes, are pyrolysis gasoline, a byproduct of the ethylene production in the steam cracking process, and coke oven gas. Reforming gasoline contains only small amounts of benzene. Large amounts of benzene are further produced by hydrodealkylation of toluene, a surplus product in industry. 

Reformed gasoline contains only 3-5% benzene beside 50-60% other aromatics. Therefore reformed gasoline is a valuable source for aromatics like toluene, the xylenes, or durene. 

The liquid fuel reformer that has been worked on at Los Alamos and the Argonne National Labs is a fuel-flexible processor which can reform gasoline, natural gas, methanol, or ethanol at the control of a switch. This would also allow the use of the existing fuel infrastructure, but this... 

J. M. Andrade, M. S. Sanchez and L. A. Sarabia, Applicability of high-absorbance MIR spectroscopy in industrial quality control of reformed gasolines, Chemom. Intell. Lab. Syst., 46, 1999, 41-55. 

Reforming Gasolines, naphthas High-octane gasolines, aromatics 850-1000°F 455-535°C Dehydrogenation, dehydroisomerization, isomerization, hydrocracking, dehydrocyclization... 

Reformed gasoline gasoline made by a reforming process. 

The ability of the Argonne catalyst to reform several types of hydrocarbons suggested that this catalyst would be able to reform commercial petroleum fuels. However, commercial fuels offer additional challenges to reforming. Gasoline and diesel fuels both contain sulfur,... 

G. Proticlovasic, N. Jambrec, D. Deursiftar and M. V. Prostenik Determination of catalytic reformed gasoline octane number by high-resolution gas-chromatography. Fuel 69(4), 525-528 (1990). 

Fig. 18. Correlation between octane number and aromatics content of platinum reformed gasolines, for three different sources of naphtha.

MTI and Catalytica are working together to develop compact fuel processors for use with PEMFCs and solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). This system is designed to reform gasoline and Naval Distillate for PEMFCs. 

Gasoline s two main blending components are FCC and naphtha reformer gasoline. Both contain large concentrations of aromatic compounds and, in the... 

From the straight-run, cracked and reformed gasolines the refiners compound the different mixtures sold as proprietary and regional brands to meet pollution standards. 

SF Engines working at heavy conditions reformed gasoline... 

In the present study, silicon and transition metal substituted aluminophosphate molecular sieves have also been evaluated for activity and selectivity for para-xylene production via Cg aromatic isomerization. In commercial practice, Cg aromatic cuts are obtained from reformate gasoline and from pyrolysis naphtha streams. Both feeds contain a significant fraction of ethylbenzene which is difficult to separate from xylenes by physical techniques,... 

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