US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on March 17 for "Systems and processes of eliminating start-up flaring in a gas plant" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,740, issued on March 17, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Systems and processes of eliminating start-up flaring in a gas plant" was invented by Khalid Saeed Babtain (Al-Hofuf, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulhakeem Yahya Alqahtani (Al-Hofuf, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for eliminating start-up flaring in a gas plant utilizing flare stack diversion logic comprises a natural gas source; a start-up train flow-path; a running train flow-path; a bypass flow-path; and a flare stack diversion controller, wherein the flare stack diversion controller is programmed to execute flare stack diversio...