Reforming without recycle hydrogen

Claim 1

A PROCESS FOR THE CONVERSION OF A HYDROCARBON DISTILLATE CONTAINING NAPHTHENES AND PARAFFINS AND BOILING IN THE GASOLINE RANGE, WHICH COMPRISES SUBJECTING THE DISTILLATE TO CATALYTIC AROMATIZATION, THEREBY FORMING HYDROGEN, SEPARATING SAID HYDROGEN FROM THE AROMATIZED GASOLINE PRODUCT, SPLITTING SAID GASOLINE PRODUCT INTO A PLURALITY OF STREAMS, PASSING EACH OF THE AROMATIZED GASOLINE STREAMS THROUGH A SEPARATE ONE OF A PLURALITY OF REACTION ZONES CONTAINING REFORMING CATALYST AND MAINTAINED AT INDEPENDENTLY CONTROLLED REFORMING CONDITIONS, SAID ZONES BEING CONNECTED FOR SERIES FLOW OF HYDROGEN GAS THERETHROUGH, PASSING SAID HYDROGEN FORMED IN THE AROMATIZING STEP THROUGH THE FIRST ZONE OF THE SERIES IN ADMIXTURE WITH THE AROMATIZED GASOLINE STREAM SUPPLIED TO THIS ZONE, SEPARATING THE EFFLUENT OF EACH OF SAID ZONES INTO A HYDROGEN-CONTAINING GAS AND A REFORMED GASOLINE PRODUCT, SUPPLYING THE HYDROGEN-CONTAINING GAS FROM EACH OF SAID ZONES, EXTENT THE LAST IN THE SERIES, TO THE NEXT SUCCEEDING ZONE OF THE SERIES FOR PASSAGE THERETHROUGH IN ADMIXTURE WITH ANOTHER OF SAID AROMATIZED GASOLINE STREAMS, COMMINGLING THE REFORMED GASOLINE PRODUCTS FROM SAID ZONES AND RECOVERING THE RESULTANT MIXTURE.