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      "problem": "1 to kg/kg needs core's foundation.units (pip install 'cheme-as-code[units]')",
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      "family": "refining",
      "kpi": "reforming-hydrogen-yield",
      "problem": "1 to kg/t needs core's foundation.units (pip install 'cheme-as-code[units]')",
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    },
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      "dataset": "catalytic-reforming-ccr",
      "expression": "feed:electricity / feed:naphtha",
      "family": "refining",
      "kpi": "reforming-specific-electricity",
      "no_open_reference": "No open per-tonne range independent of the dataset found (2026-11-05). The REF BREF range (Table 3.42, 25 to 50 kWh/t, all reformer types) is the dataset's own source. The US DOE bandwidth study (2015) gives onsite energy per barrel only.",
      "problem": "kWh/kg to kWh/t needs core's foundation.units (pip install 'cheme-as-code[units]')",
      "reference": null,
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      "title": "Electricity per t of reformer feed",
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      "value": null
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        "role": "feedstock"
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        "role": "emission"
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        "grade": null,
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        "role": "utility"
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        "grade": null,
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    "CCR",
    "continuous catalyst regeneration",
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    "refinery hydrogen",
    "aromatics"
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  "maturity": "concept",
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  "references": [
    {
      "doi": "10.2791/010758",
      "title": "Barthe, P., Chaugny, M., Roudier, S., Delgado Sancho, L. (2015) Best Available Techniques (BAT) Reference Document for the Refining of Mineral Oil and Gas. JRC Science and Policy Report EUR 27140 EN (JRC94879), sections 2.6 and 3.6"
    },
    {
      "title": "ExxonMobil Research and Engineering (2014) Rapid cycle reforming process, US Patent 8,668,824 B2, Example (Tables A and B, run 1: standard CCR conditions)",
      "url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US8668824B2/en"
    },
    {
      "title": "ppPLUS (2025) UOP CCR Platforming, technology #T280 (third-party compilation of Honeywell UOP figures; manufacturer data)",
      "url": "https://portfolio-pplus.com/Technologies/Details/280"
    },
    {
      "title": "Hameed, S.A. (2017) Improving of design parameters of an industrial continuous catalytic reforming reactors. Iraqi Journal of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering 18(2):109-123, Table 1",
      "url": "https://distantreader.org/stacks/journals/ijcpe/ijcpe-207.pdf"
    },
    {
      "title": "IPCC (2006) 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Volume 2 Energy, chapter 1, Table 1.2 (net calorific values)",
      "url": "https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/pdf/2_Volume2/V2_1_Ch1_Introduction.pdf"
    },
    {
      "title": "Abella, J.P., Motazedi, K., Bergerson, J.A. (2015) Petroleum Refinery Life Cycle Inventory Model (PRELIM) v1.0, user guide and technical documentation, University of Calgary, Table 8 (p. 53)",
      "url": "https://www.ucalgary.ca/sites/default/files/teams/477/prelim-v1-0-documentation.pdf"
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  "summary": "Sourced conceptual inventory per tonne of C5+ reformate, with hydrogen, LPG and fuel gas as co-products: utilities from EU REF BREF ranges, a mass and hydrogen balance over pseudo-components with PRELIM's hydrogen contents. No flowsheet; not reviewed.",
  "title": "Catalytic reforming of naphtha with continuous catalyst regeneration (CCR)",
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