US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Dec. 2 for "System for separating oil and water mixture using hydrophilic modified polystyrene and hydrophobic polyurethane" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,365, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System for separating oil and water mixture using hydrophilic modified polystyrene and hydrophobic polyurethane" was invented by Tawfik Abdo Saleh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for separating an oil and water mixture including an oil and water mixture tank, a first membrane, a second membrane, a separated oil tank, and a separated water tank. The first membrane includes polystyrene, which is functionalized with tannic acid. Water passes through, and oil does not pass through the first membran...