Prodcution of polymer/food grade solvents from paraffin rich low value streams employing hydroprocessing

摘要

The present invention relates to the process for the preparation of Polymer/Food grade hydrocarbon solvents of naphtha range essentially free from olefins less than 20 ppm of aromatics and less than 1 ppm of sulfur from paraffinic-rich low value streams such as raffinate from the solvent extraction units in crude oil refineries employed for recovery of aromatics from reformate by hydrogenation in the presence of a nickel based catalyst.