ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,091, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ConocoPhillips Co. (Houston).
"Testing H 2 S scavengers polymerization factors" was invented by Jay E. Locklear (Houston) and Clinton L. Crowe (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Scavenging chemicals used in mitigation treatments of hydrogen sulfide in hydrocarbon streams often continue to react and form polymers that foul the processing system. Disclosed herein are methods for determining if a scavenging chemical mitigator, or its reaction or degradation product, will polymerized during or after mitigation treatments. This information allows for the optimization of mitigation treatments t...