Modeling of Reactor of Straight–run Gasoline Fractions Refining on Zeolite Catalysts

Zeolites are widely used as catalysts and catalyst supports for fuel and lubricants production processes with enhanced performance properties. Design of industrial reactor requires the construction of a mathematical model and selection of optimal operating conditions for reducing the number of scaling stages. The authors have proposed a scheme of hydrocarbons conversion on zeolite catalysts, thermodynamics of reactions has been considered and the inverse kinetic problem has been solved. The model of reactor of straight–run gasoline fractions refining in software HYSYS Aspen Plus™ process simulator has been developed and its adequacy to experimental data has been shown.