US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on July 22 for "Polypyrrole ceramic-polymeric porous membrane for separating an oil and water mixture" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,955, issued on July 22, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Polypyrrole ceramic-polymeric porous membrane for separating an oil and water mixture" was invented by Umair Baig (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Abdul Waheed (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of separating an oil and water mixture including contacting the oil and water mixture with a membrane, where only the water in the oil and water mixture passes through the membrane. The membrane includes an alumina support and polypyrrole. A layer of the polypyrrole is hydrogen bonded to an outer layer of the...