PROCESS FOR OPERATING A PLANT FACILITY DURING CATALYST REGENERATION

The present invention provides a process of conducting catalyst regeneration in a plant facility, comprising; providing a plant facility with a unit area operating within battery limits; wherein the battery limits of the unit area are configured to receive a feed material; receiving the feed material into the battery limits and flowing the feed material within the unit area of the plant facility through a plurality of parallel flow paths in a plurality of reactor trains wherein; each reactor train comprises at least one reactor; and at least one reactor in each reactor train is charged with a catalyst; isolating in at isolation step at least one, but not all, of the plurality of parallel flow paths to provide at least one isolated reactor train and remaining on-line reactor trains; regenerating in a regeneration stepthe catalyst in the at least one reactor in the at least one isolated reactor train; wherein during the regeneration step the feed material flows through the parallel flow paths supplied from the battery limits and accepted for processing in the plant facility is approximately constant before and during theisolation step.