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Originally Posted by mrtexas
All modern gasoline has benzen, toluene, and xylene in it. Althought the benzene has been legislated out and refiners remove it intentionally. One major refining process is catalytic reforming to convert the cyclohexane in distilled naphtha to BTX. The 65 octane naphtha is converted to 95-105 octane reformate. Have you heard of chevron's advert of "our gas has platformate"? Yup, chevron's version of catalytic reforming is called platforming and makes platformate(yield of 75%). Refinery I worked in had 1/3 of capacity in reforming. 32 years as chemical engineer in XOM refinery.
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Nice to hear from someone in the industry. Nearly all my graduate chemistry was focused on materials longevity and identification, so I only know enough about gasoline and the science behind it to be a dangerous hobbyist. The big brain folks certainly can do some amazing stuff with those molecules in the labs.