US Patent Issued to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY on Nov. 4 for "Co3O4@c derived from metal-organic frameworks use for production of methyl ethyl ketone (MEK)" (Saudi Arabia, Egyptian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,458,954, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to IMAM MOHAMMAD IBN SAUD ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

"Co3O4@c derived from metal-organic frameworks use for production of methyl ethyl ketone (MEK)" was invented by Mohamed Nady Abd El-Hameed Ibrahim (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) and Abd El-Aziz Ahmed Said (Assiut, Egypt).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of methyl ether ketone (MEK) production from 2-butanol includes contacting 2-butanol in the gas phase with a solid Co3O4@C nanocomposite catalyst to dehydrogenate the 2-butanol and form the MEK and hydrogen while gas sparging the reactor, where the Co3O4@C nanocomposite catalyst has a...