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Catalytic Reforming

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#1 Blank03

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Posted 20 December 2017 - 08:39 PM

Hi. I am a new member here from Philippines. I am really, really shy about asking things here because I am afraid I may look like I do not know anything but I am way desperate and I have been searching and searching for Journals and articles regarding Catalytic Reforming but alas to my luck, I got nothing. It would be very nice of you if you could help me a bit. thank you so much. so here it goes and sorry for asking if it may look like dumb but i will appreciate it. 

I am actually looking for a set of reactions that is happening during the Naphtha Catalytic Process. So I have this article entitled "Dynamic modeling and simulation of a naphtha catalytic reforming reactor". fortunately,  I found the reactions I needed, per Process. there goes separate reactions under Hydrocyclization and Hydrocracking and so on and so forth. there goes 1 problem: all of the reactions are set in a form of Paraffins and Naphthenes. I searched what each of it means, and I found out that Paraffins are those in a form of CnH2n+2 while Naphthenes are CnH2n. So there solved my first problem.
another problem is the fact that,say for a P6 compound, different chemicals can be possible, base on our aspen hysys set of formula. you can get:2,3-dimethylbutane/2-methylpentane/3-methylpentane/hexane.

now, my question is, how can you identify which is which in a certain process?
say under the hydrocyclization process you got p6 yielding N6. 
but p6 has 2,3-dimethylbutane/2-methylpentane/3-methylpentane/hexane.

Please help me. and i do apologize for sudden   questions. I have been searching for different journals but I cant really find anything.
thank you very much

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#2 PingPong

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Posted 24 December 2017 - 04:04 AM

under the hydrocyclization process you got p6 yielding N6. 
but p6 has 2,3-dimethylbutane/2-methylpentane/3-methylpentane/hexane.
And to be complete: there is also 2,2-dimethylbutane.

N6 is cyclohexane.

When you look at the structural formulas of all molecules it is clear that cyclohexane is formed by cyclization of n-hexane.






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