US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Sept. 8 for "Converting natural gas to dimethyl ether" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,174, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Converting natural gas to dimethyl ether" was invented by Guodong Zhan (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Bodong Li (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Abdulwahab S. Aljohar (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for converting natural gas to dimethyl ether (DME) are provided. An exemplary system includes a purified natural gas feed, a combustion chamber to combust a first portion of the natural gas to provide heat and an exhaust gas, and a separator to separate water and CO2 from the exhaust gas to form a first feed, a second por...