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Modelling of an industrial naphtha isomerization reactor and development and assessment of a new isomerization process
Ahmed, A.M. Jarullah, A.T. Abed, F.M.
Ahmed, A.M.
Jarullah, A.T.
Abed, F.M.
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2018-09
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© 2018 Institution of Chemical Engineers. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
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2018-06-22
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Naphtha isomerization is an important issue in petroleum industries and it has to be a simple and cost effective technology for producing clean fuel with high gasoline octane number. In this work, based on real industrial data, a detailed process model is developed for an existing naphtha isomerization reactor of Baiji North Refinery (BNR) of Iraq which involves estimation of the kinetic parameters of the reactor. The optimal values of the kinetic parameters are estimated via minimizing the sum of squared errors between the predicted and the experimental data of BNR. Finally, a new isomerization process (named as AJAM process) is proposed and using the reactor model developed earlier, the reactor condition is optimized which maximizes the yield and research octane number (RON) of the reactor.
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Ahmed AM, Jarullah AT, Abed FM et al (2018) Modelling of an industrial naphtha isomerization reactor and development and assessment of a new isomerization process. Chemical Engineering Research and Design. 137: 33-46.
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