US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on March 3 for "Catalyst regeneration system utilization for heat exchanger decoking" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,831, issued on March 3, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Catalyst regeneration system utilization for heat exchanger decoking" was invented by Muhammad Bilal Akhtar (Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia), Saud Al Saud (Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia) and Ali M. Al Dossary (Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catalyst regeneration gas loop is operated in a heat exchanger decoking mode. A regeneration gas is diverted away from a burn zone of the catalyst regeneration gas loop and to a heat exchanger, where coke deposits are disposed on a surface of the heat exchanger. The regeneration gas is prevented...