US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on July 14 for "Generating hydrogen from refinery waste and consumer waste plastic for supply to hydroprocessing" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,029, issued on July 14, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Generating hydrogen from refinery waste and consumer waste plastic for supply to hydroprocessing" was invented by Omer Refa Koseoglu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrical power derived from a renewable energy source is used to perform electrolysis of water to produce oxygen and hydrogen. A feed stream includes consumer waste plastics, a waste stream from a hydrocarbon refinery, or both. The feed stream is partially oxidized to produce syngas. At least a portion of the carbon monoxide of the syngas is reacted with water t...