US Patent Issued to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on Dec. 30 for "System and method for determining demulsifier for separating water from water emulsion" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,473, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for determining demulsifier for separating water from water emulsion" was invented by Sigurdur Tryggvi Thoroddsen (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Yuansi Tian (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Ziqiang Yang (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Ehab Elsaadawy (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for selecting a demulsifier and its concentration that is most efficient in separating water from oil includes mixing dry oil with a demulsifier to obtain a mixt...