US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Oct. 6 for "Methods for processing aromatic compounds" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,354, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods for processing aromatic compounds" was invented by Robert Peter Hodgkins (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Omer Refa Koseoglu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aromatic compounds may be processed by a method that may include passing a hydrocarbon feed, hydrogen, and a recycle stream to a reactor and forming a reactor effluent. The recycle stream may include at least 90 wt. % of one or more C11+ aromatic compounds, wherein one or more of C11+ aromatic compounds are alkyl-bridged non-condensed alkyl multi-aromatic compounds. A po...