화학공학소재연구정보센터
Energy & Fuels, Vol.23, 3172-3177, 2009
Characterization of Catalytic Reforming Streams by NIR Spectroscopy
The ability of near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy with multivariate methods of analysis to predict the chemical composition of different process streams obtained from a catalytic reforming unit was demonstrated. One hundred and forty samples were used to develop calibration models by partial least-squares (PLS) regression. For calibration and validation stages, 92 and 48 samples were employed, respectively. Total paraffin, total isoparaffin, total naphthene, and total aromatic content in naphtha have been successfully determined. Prediction of individual carbon chain length (C6-C8) in each hydrocarbon family was also studied with promising results. Calibration models for compounds with carbon chain length smaller than C6 and bigger than C8 were not developed because the concentration ranges of those components were too low, and there is a limitation in NIR sensitivity. The proposed methodology takes less than 5 min to perform, and it can be used for online process control. Besides, it is faster than the standard method, which takes about 4 h. The results showed a high repeatability and a good correlation with the GC data.