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Process simulation of reformer by equilibrium reactions. Catalytic reforming is an important refinery process for the production of highoctane gasoline, hydrogen, and aromatics from naphtha. This book is the most uptodate and comprehensive coverage of the most significant and recent changes to petroleum refining, presenting the stateoftheart to the engineer. The highly branched compound 2,2,4trimethylpentane called isooctane in the petroleum industry burns very smoothly without knocking in internal combustion engines and is used as one of the standards by which the octane rating of gasolines is established.
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