US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Sept. 16 for "Adaptive control of BTX removal in sulfur recovery units" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,725, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Adaptive control of BTX removal in sulfur recovery units" was invented by Tarek D. Aboghoniem (Udhailiyah, Saudi Arabia), Abdullah A. Albader (Al Mubarraz, Saudi Arabia) and Abdullraheem U. Almulla (Al Hofuf, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an outlet flowline from an activated carbon bed, a bypass flowline, a furnace, and a control system. The outlet flowline is configured to flow an acid gas stream out of the activated carbon bed after the activated carbon bed has removed benzene, toluene, and xylene from the acid ...