US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology on July 28 for "Process for concentrating CO 2 from air and dilute CO 2 streams using MOF based physisorbents" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,432, issued on July 28, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

"Process for concentrating CO 2 from air and dilute CO 2 streams using MOF based physisorbents" was invented by Mohamed Eddaoudi (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Prashant Bhatt (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Aqil Jamal (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for capturing CO2 from a gas stream using a metal organic framework (MOF) based physisorbent CO2 concentrator is provided. In the method, a MOF material is pretreated, a gas stream is then introduced into th...