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.
Catalytic reforming of naphtha with continuous catalyst regeneration (CCR)
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.
Research outputNot engineering advice and not an approved design: do not use it for construction, operation or safety decisions. What this means
Overview
- Capacity
- per tonne of C5+ reformate (the dataset's basis); no plant size
What goes in and out
In
Out
- ReformateMain product
- HydrogenCo-productnet gas counted as pure H2 (ASSUMED)
- Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)Co-productcloses the mass balance
- Refinery fuel gasCo-productC1 and C2 to the refinery fuel system
- Carbon dioxideEmissioncoke burn-off in the regenerator
- WastewaterWaste
Utilities: Electricity, Cooling water (heat rejected, kWh)
Life cycle assessment
No footprint assessed yet; the process is part of the life-cycle inventory below.
In the open LCI database (cheme-as-code-atlas-preview-a3c52e4) as Reformate, C5+ (stabilised) Preliminary; Hydrogen, net gas of the reformer (counted as pure H2) Preliminary; Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), C3 and C4 from the debutaniser Preliminary; Refinery fuel gas, C1 and C2 to the refinery fuel system Preliminary.
Download it for Brightway, openLCA and other tools.
In the LCI database: system model, datasets and KPIs against the benchmarks
In the LCI database
- Status
- Preliminary 3 unmapped exchanges. Some exchanges have no background mapping yet: they are exported unlinked and count no burden, so the inventory is incomplete.
- System model
- attributional, cut-off (methodology 1.1.0)
- Allocation
- energy (physical-energy, from mappings) · product:fuel-gas 3.3 %, product:hydrogen 8 %, product:lpg 7 %, product:reformate 81.6 %
- Allocation findings
- none
- Change report
- Not available: this build has no change report against an earlier release.
- Dataset pages
- Refinery fuel gas, C1 and C2 to the refinery fuel system Preliminary · Hydrogen, net gas of the reformer (counted as pure H2) Preliminary · Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), C3 and C4 from the debutaniser Preliminary · Reformate, C5+ (stabilised) Preliminary
KPI benchmark positions
| KPI | Value | Reference range | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| C5+ reformate per mass of reformer feed | – kg/kg | 0.82 to 0.86 kg/kg | not evaluated |
| Net hydrogen per t of reformer feed | – kg/t | 26.98 to 53.97 kg/t | not evaluated |
| Electricity per t of reformer feed 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. | – kWh/t | not available | not evaluated |
| Fuel fired per t of reformer feed No open per-tonne range independent of the dataset found (2026-11-05). The REF BREF range (Table 3.42, 1400 to 2900 MJ/t, all reformer types) is the dataset's own source. The US DOE bandwidth study (2015, Table 4-2) gives onsite energy per barrel only (file comment). | – MJ/t | not available | not evaluated |
Maturity and review
Design maturity Concept (claimed): An idea or first flowsheet; numbers are rough. No independent engineering review yet. Automated checks passing is not a review.
Calculation maturity, from the checked evidenceNot assessed
The process has no maturity report (cheme maturity, checks/maturity.json), so no calculation maturity is established.
No level shownThe design maturity (Concept) is the manifest's claim, not evidence. A level appears here once the process's repository holds a current report from
cheme maturity --write.Artifact completeness
Which deliverables exist. They never raise a calculation maturity level: a drawing from unchecked numbers is still unchecked.
Not reported without a maturity report.
Independent review
Not independently reviewed
No independent engineering review yet. Automated checks passing is not a review.
Set by people only. Reaching a calculation maturity level or passing automated checks is not an independent review or an approval.
Where the evidence comes from
- Report
processes/catalytic-reforming-1/checks/maturity.json(not in the library)- Method
- How ChemE-as-Code checks the levels (requirement by requirement)
Open items
0 open items · 0 closed
New action itemNew engineering holdNew technical queryNew design changeAll issues
Sources
- Library version
- a3c52e4 (process last changed in a3c52e4)
- Data
- Catalog record (JSON) · CC-BY-4.0
- Files
- View the files on GitHub · change history and authors
References
- 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 · doi:10.2791/010758
- 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)
- ppPLUS (2025) UOP CCR Platforming, technology #T280 (third-party compilation of Honeywell UOP figures; manufacturer data)
- 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
- IPCC (2006) 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Volume 2 Energy, chapter 1, Table 1.2 (net calorific values)
- 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)
How to cite
For the data, cite the Process Atlas paper; for the platform that builds and checks it, the ChemE-as-Code paper.
Schweidtmann, A. M. & Weber, J. M. (2026, in preparation). Process Atlas: an open, git-native, reproducible library and life cycle inventory of chemical processes (working title).
For this process: "Catalytic reforming of naphtha with continuous catalyst regeneration (CCR)", ChemE-as-Code process library, version a3c52e4.
BibTeX
@unpublished{schweidtmann_process_atlas,
author = {Schweidtmann, Artur M. and Weber, Jana M.},
title = {{Process Atlas: an open, git-native, reproducible library and life cycle inventory of chemical processes (working title)}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://atlas.cheme-as-code.org},
note = {in preparation}
}Schweidtmann, A. M. (2026). ChemE-as-Code: An Open-Source Platform for Agentic AI in Chemical Engineering. arXiv:2611.07947. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2611.07947
BibTeX
@misc{schweidtmann_cheme_as_code,
author = {Schweidtmann, Artur M.},
title = {{ChemE-as-Code: An Open-Source Platform for Agentic AI in Chemical Engineering}},
year = {2026},
eprint = {2611.07947},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2611.07947},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.07947}
}