US Patent Issued to NAJRAN UNIVERSITY on March 17 for "Transesterification catalyst for biodiesel synthesis" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,482, issued on March 17, was assigned to NAJRAN UNIVERSITY (Najran, Saudi Arabia).

"Transesterification catalyst for biodiesel synthesis" was invented by Raiedhah A. Alsaiari (Najran, Saudi Arabia), Esraa M. Musa (Najran, Saudi Arabia) and Moustafa A. Rizk (Najran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transesterification catalyst, a method of producing the transesterification catalyst, and a method of producing a biodiesel using the transesterification catalyst. The transesterification catalyst includes crystalline quartz particles, cristobalite particles, and silicon-substituted hydroxycalcioromerite particles by XRD. The ...