Petroleum & Coal 54 (1) 76-84, 2012
Simulation
And Modeling Of Catalytic Reformingprocess
Aboalfazl Askari*, Hajir Karimi, M.Reza Rahimi, Mehdi Ghanbari
aboalfazl_askari@yahoo.com
Chemical engineering department, School of engineering,Yasouj University,Yasouj
Abstract
One
of the most important processes in oil refineries is catalytic reforming unit
in which high octane gasoline is produced. The catalytic reforming unit by
using Hysys-refinery software was simulated. The results are validated by
operating data, which is taken from the Esfahan oil refinery catalytic
reforming unit.
Usually, in oil refineries, flow instability in composition of
feedstock can affect the product quality. The attention of this paper was
focused on changes of the final product flow rate and product’s octane number
with respect to the changes in the feedstock composition. The results showed that if the feed stream of
catalytic reforming unit supplied with the Heavy Isomax Naphtha can be
increased, more than 20% of the current value, the flow rate and octane number
of the final product will be increased. Also, we found that the variations of
temperature and pressure, under operating condition of the reactors of this
unit, has no effect on octane number and final product flow rate. Free Full
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