US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on April 7 for "Co-production of hydrogen and sulfuric acid by partial oxidation of sulfur" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,171, issued on April 7, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Co-production of hydrogen and sulfuric acid by partial oxidation of sulfur" was invented by Guillaume Robert Jean-Francois Raynel (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for producing hydrogen, including converting sulfur vapor and oxygen gas in a first zone of furnace into sulfur monoxide, injecting water into a second zone of the furnace, converting the sulfur monoxide and the water in the second zone into hydrogen gas and sulfur dioxide, discharging furnace exhaust gas (including the hydrogen gas) from the furn...