US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Nov. 3 for "Hydrodearylation of aromatic bottoms to produce BTEX and aromatic solvent" (Saudi Arabia, Turkish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,142, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Hydrodearylation of aromatic bottoms to produce BTEX and aromatic solvent" was invented by Omer Refa Koseoglu (Istanbul) and Robert Peter Hodgkins (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for treatment of C9+ aromatic complex bottoms feedstream that includes reacting the feedstream in the presence of a hydrodearylation catalyst and hydrogen under specified reaction conditions for hydrodearylation to produce liquid effluents containing dearylated hydrocarbons and separating the liquid effluents into a BTEX-rich fraction and a s...