US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Dec. 2 for "Methods and systems for restoring adsorptive capacity of a molecular sieve-based dehydration unit" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,378, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods and systems for restoring adsorptive capacity of a molecular sieve-based dehydration unit" was invented by Abdullah Al Oraifi (Jubail, Saudi Arabia), Diki Andrian (Jubail, Saudi Arabia), Amjad Alshaer (Jubail, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulrahman M. Al-Harbi (Jubail, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved method of restoring the adsorptive capacity of a molecular sieve-based dehydration unit utilized in drying a hydrocarbon gas. The method includes a gas dehydration step, a depressurization step, a sweeping step, a heating step...