US Patent Issued to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS on Sept. 16 for "Process for simultaneous removal of hydrogen sulfide and heavy metals" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,726, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Process for simultaneous removal of hydrogen sulfide and heavy metals" was invented by Sagheer A. Onaizi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for simultaneous removal of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and heavy metals from mixture includes charging a contaminated aqueous composition containing heavy metal ions to a reactor. The process also includes passing a H2S-containing gas composition via a plurality of gas spargers through the contaminated aqueous composition present in the reactor to form a H2S-...