摘要 |
<p>Provided is a reforming process for producing a high purity benzene product using a non-acidic zeolitic catalyst. The high purity benzene is extracted from a light fraction of reformate that has less than 500 ppm by weight toluene. Generally, a hydrocarbon feed is reformed in a reformer under reforming conditions in the presence of a non-acidic catalyst to produce a reformate. That reformate is separated into a light fraction and a heavy fraction. The extraction unit, preferably an extractive distillation unit, is then used to separate the light fraction into an aromatic extract stream and a nonaromatic raffinate stream.</p> |