High temperature CCR process with integrated reactor bypasses

A process for increasing the aromatic content in a naphtha feedstream in reforming reactors in a series, comprising:

• passing the naphtha feedstream through a series of reforming reactors and reactor feed heaters, wherein the reactors feed heaters generate a heated stream and at least one of the heated streams is split into a first portion and a second portion, with the first portion passed to a reforming reactor to generate a reforming reactor effluent stream;
• and
• wherein the second portion of the heated stream is combined with a downstream reforming reactor effluent stream and the combined stream is passed to a downstream reactor feed heater, to generate a reactor product stream by converting paraffins and naphthenes in the naphtha feedstream through dehydrogenation and cyclization in the presence of added hydrogen, added sulfur compounds and a reforming catalyst in reforming reactors to aromatics with increased aromatic content;
• wherein the first reforming reactor is operated at a temperature between 400° C. and 500° C., and the following reactors are operated at a second reaction temperature between 500° C. and 600° C., wherein the following reaction temperatures is greater than the first reaction temperature, and wherein the reforming reactors are operated as successively greater temperatures.