ABSTRACT
Since the first industrial application of reforming for fuel upgrading using supported Pt catalysts, this large-scale commercial process has proved to be a driving force for research of metal-catalyzed hydrocarbon reactions. Laboratory studies, which frequently employed conditions vastly different from industrial ones, provided a scientific background for catalytic reforming, and these apparently remote investigations prepared the ground for several industrially important innovations in the past, and will do so in the future, too. This chapter concentrates on a few points of laboratory-scale studies that might be of value for industry.
