IMPROVED CATALYTIC REFORMING PROCESS

摘要

A substantially water-free hydrocarbon feed (12) is charged to a multiple-reactor reformer system being operated under reforming conditions and comprising at least two reformer reactors, represented by (20), (40), and (54), serially connected in fluid-fow communication and each containing a reformer catalyst; and, simultaneously with the charging step, a chloriding agent is introduced through lines (72), (74) and (76) without simultaneously introducing water, immediately upstream from the inlets of all the reformer reactors in an amount and for a period of time that is effective to inhibit the deactivation of the reformer catalyst.