NOVELTY - Separating and saturating benzene from a reforming zone effluent involves introducing the reforming zone effluent to a combined stabilizer and naphtha splitter (12); removing an overhead stream, a sidecut stream comprising 4-5C compounds, a bottoms stream (14) comprising 7C+ compound, and a heart cut stream (18) comprising 4-6C compounds including benzene, from the splitter; concentrating the benzene from the heart cut stream in a side stripper bottoms stream (22), and saturating the benzene in the side stripper bottoms stream.    USE - For separating and saturating benzene from a reforming zone effluent (claimed).    ADVANTAGE - The process is efficient for removing the benzene from the reforming reactor effluent. The process removes the benzene while returning a stream comprising valuable hydrocarbons but reduced in benzene to the combined stabilizer-naphtha splitter.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - Separating and saturating benzene from a reforming zone effluent involves: a) introducing the reforming zone effluent to a combined stabilizer and naphtha splitter (12); b) removing an overhead stream from the combined stabilizer and naphtha splitter, the overhead comprising light ends; c) removing a sidecut stream from the combined stabilizer and naphtha splitter, the sidecut stream comprising 4-5C compounds; d) removing a bottoms stream (14) from the combined stabilizer and naphtha splitter, the bottoms stream comprising 7C+ compounds; e) removing a heart cut stream (18) from the combined stabilizer and naphtha splitter, the heart cut stream comprising 4-6C compounds including benzene; f) introducing the heart cut stream to a side stripper (20) to produce a side stripper overhead stream (16) reduced in benzene and a side stripper bottoms stream (22) enriched in benzene; and g) introducing at least a portion of the side stripper bottoms stream enriched in benzene into a hydrogenation zone to saturate benzene and generate a hydrogenation zone effluent depleted in benzene.    DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING(S) - The figure shows a schematic depiction of process for reducing benzene concentration in reformate.    Combined stabilizer and naphtha splitter (12)    Bottoms stream (14)    Side stripper overhead stream (16)    Heart cut stream (18)    Side stripper (20)    Side stripper bottoms stream (22)