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    Catalytic reforming is a chemical process used to convert petroleum refinery naphthas distilled from crude oil (typically having low octane ratings) into...
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    Steam reforming or steam methane reforming (SMR) is a method for producing syngas (hydrogen and carbon monoxide) by reaction of hydrocarbons with water...
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    between 1978 and 1981, catalytic reformates accounted for approximately 44–50% of the total U.S. benzene production. In catalytic reforming, a mixture of hydrocarbons...
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    poisons the noble metal catalysts (platinum and rhenium) in the catalytic reforming units that are subsequently used to upgrade the octane rating of...
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    cracking of dicyclopentadiene to produce cyclopentadiene. Steam reforming Catalytic reforming Alfke, Gunter; Irion, Walther W.; Neuwirth, Otto S. (2007)....
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  • Steam reforming (SR), sometimes referred to as steam methane reforming (SMR) uses an external source of hot gas to heat tubes in which a catalytic reaction...
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  • solar catalytic reforming can be further categorized into: photocatalytic reforming (PC reforming), photoelectrochemical reforming (PEC reforming) and...
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    residues into diesel is another application. In isomerization and catalytic reforming processes, some hydrogen pressure is maintained to hydrogenolyze...
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    Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) is the conversion process used in petroleum refineries to convert the high-boiling point, high-molecular weight hydrocarbon...
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    recovery of aromatics derived from the catalytic reforming of naphtha in a petroleum refinery. Catalytic reforming usually utilizes a feedstock naphtha...
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