US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on May 12 for "Removal of sulfur compounds from gas" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,904, issued on May 12, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Removal of sulfur compounds from gas" was invented by Mohammad Saad AlQahtani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Seung-Hak Choi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for removing sulfur compounds from gas, including discharging tail gas having sulfur compounds from a sulfur recovery unit (SRU) to a non-thermal plasma (NTP) catalytic unit including an NTP reactor, providing oxidant to the NTP reactor and placing the oxidant in an NTP state in the NTP reactor to give an oxidative reactive species formed from the oxidant, c...