US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Feb. 24 for "Black powder catalyst for hydrogen production via autothermal reforming" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,369, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Black powder catalyst for hydrogen production via autothermal reforming" was invented by Rami Bamagain (Khobar, Saudi Arabia), Bandar A. Fadhel (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed A. Albuali (Dammam, Saudi Arabia) and Ahmad A. Wedhaya (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A autothermal reforming catalyst that includes treated black powder (primarily hematite), and a method of treating black powder (e.g., from a natural gas pipeline) to give the treated black powder. An autothermal reformer having the treated black powder as reforming...