US Patent Issued to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations on May 26 for "Formulations and methods to remove non-acidic sulfur compounds from gas streams" (Texas, Louisiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,627, issued on May 26, was assigned to Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC (Houston).

"Formulations and methods to remove non-acidic sulfur compounds from gas streams" was invented by Onome Ugono (Rosenberg, Texas), Sankaran Murugesan (Katy, Texas), Sai Reddy Pinappu (Sugar Land, Texas) and Jeffery Bolton (Baton Rouge, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Non-acidic sulfur compounds can be extracted from a gas stream by contacting the gas stream with a carbonate solvent that contains at least one organic carbonate in an amount that is effective to solvate at least a portion of the non-acidic sulfur compounds. The gas steam can then be ...