US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on March 3 for "Systems and processes for hydrocarbon upgrading using catalysts" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,620, issued on March 3, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Systems and processes for hydrocarbon upgrading using catalysts" was invented by Mazin M. Fathi (Dammam, Saudi Arabia), Mohammed R. Aldossary (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Bader M. Otaibi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for upgrading a hydrocarbon-based composition includes combining a heated water stream and a pressurized, heated hydrocarbon-based composition in a mixing device to create a combined feed stream. The combined feed stream is introduced into a supercritical water reactor operating at a temperature greate...