PROCESS

Petroleum naphtha is by far the most popular feedstock for aromatics production.
Reformed naphtha, or reformate, accounts for 70% of total world BTX supply. The first step
in making aromatic (BTX) is to distill off the suitable fraction that rich in naphthenes which
serves as precursors for aromatic.
Naphtha feeds to catalytic reforming or team cracking include heavy straight run
naphtha. It transforms low octane naphtha into high-octane motor gasoline blending stock
and aromatics rich in benzene, toluene, and xylene with hydrogen and liquefied petroleum
gas as a byproduct. The basic steps in catalytic reforming involve such as naphtha
hydrotreatment that is important steps in the catalytic reforming process for removal of the
various catalyst poisons. It eliminates the impurities such as sulfur, nitrogen, halogens,
oxygen, and other metals presents in the naphtha feed stock to have longer life catalyst.
The aromatics production will send to extractor. The extractor is a process for the
recovery of aromatic from a mixture there of with non-aromatic. The non aromatics will send
to raffinate wash column where water will be added. So it will separate the non-aromatics and
waste. Then aromatic will be go out from below and go to Extractor Stripper. In the extractive
stripping proces, the conditions of temperature, pressure and concentration in the extractive
stripper can be selected so that no phase separation occur.

Mixed xylenes refers to a mixture of C8 aromatic isomers that includes ethylbenzene, paraxylene, meta-xylene, and ortho-xylene.