Naphtha cracking (UOP)

CATEGORY: NAPHTHA
Naphtha cracking (UOP)

Type	Patent
Inventor	Gregory A. Funk
Inventor	Mary Jo Wier
URL	Free Full Text Source:  http://www.google.com/patents/US9328299
Assignee	Uop Llc
Patent Number	US9328299 B2
Issue Date	May 3, 2016
Abstract	A process for increasing the yields of light olefins and the yields of aromatics from a hydrocarbon stream is presented. The process includes a first separation to direct the light components that are not reformable to a cracking unit, with the remainder passed to a second separation unit. The second separation unit extracts normal components from the hydrocarbon stream to pass to the cracking unit. The resulting hydrocarbon stream with reduced light ends and reduced normals is passed to a reforming unit.