Commercial Application of Technique for Removing Sulfates from Reforming Catalyst

In the course of reduction of reforming catalyst by not hydrogen a certain amount of chlorine containing compounds is added to the recycle hydrogen to facilitate the reduction of sulfates.The outcome of commercial application of this technique has revealed that the procedure of “regeneration by chlorination→reduction→sulfate removal→sulfiding and oil feed-in“aimed at sulate removal is very simple and can recover the reaction activity of reforming catalyst after having been poisoned by sulfates.This procedure can be disseminated for application in refineries.