Integrated hydrogenation/dehydrogenation reactor in a platforming process

A process for producing aromatic compounds from a naphtha feedstream, comprising:

• passing the naphtha feedstream to a hydrotreater to generate a treated hydrocarbon stream;
• passing the treated hydrocarbon feedstream to a fractionation unit to generate an overhead stream comprising naphthenes, and C7 and lighter hydrocarbons, and a bottoms stream comprising C8 and heavier hydrocarbons;
• passing the overhead stream to a hydrogenation/dehydrogenation reactor system having a metal only catalyst to generate a first stream having C6 and C7 aromatics with low olefin content and low naphthenic content;
• passing the bottoms stream to a bottoms reforming unit, to generate a second stream comprising aromatics;
• passing the first stream to a light reforming reactor system, thereby generating a first aromatics stream, wherein the light reforming reactor system is operated as a substantially isothermal system;
• passing the second stream to a heavy reforming reactor system, thereby generating a second aromatics stream, wherein the heavy reforming reactor system is operated as a substantially isothermal system;
• and
• passing the first and second aromatics stream to a reformate splitter, to generate a reformate overhead stream comprising C7 and lighter aromatics and C7 and lighter paraffins, and a bottoms stream comprising C8 and higher hydrocarbon.