“…When modeling catalytic reforming over bifunctional metal-acid catalyst (Kmak, 1971(Kmak, , 1973Ramage et al, 1980Ramage et al, , 1987Froment, 1982, 1990;Marin et al, 1983;Schipper et al, 1984;Van Trimpont et al, 1985, 1986a, b, 1988Sapre, 1991;Verstraete, 1997;Joshi et al, 1999;Ancheyta-Juárez et al, 2001;Klein et al, 2006;Wei et al, 2008;Sotelo-Boyás and Froment, 2009), the mechanism proposed by Mills et al (1953) is commonly retained, as it has been proven able to provide a good description of the process, even though it minimizes the role of the metal function. This mechanism is schematically illustrated in Figure 1.…”