US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Sept. 8 for "Plasma treatment in sulfur recovery" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,387, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Plasma treatment in sulfur recovery" was invented by Mohammad Saad AlQahtani (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Seung-Hak Choi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Sebastien A. Duval (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 providing a feed gas having sulfur compounds including hydrogen sulfide (H2S) to a sulfur recovery unit (SRU) that has a furnace or a non-thermal plasma (NTP) reactor, discharging an SRU tail gas having H2S from the SRU to a tail gas treatment (TGT) unit having a h...