ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,718, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"Amine absorber configuration" was invented by Saleh H. Al-Ofi (Taplow, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a process and a system for treating both a high-pressure (HP) and a low-pressure (LP) acid gas-containing gas streams. The system includes a HP absorber unit, a flash drum coupled downstream of the HP absorber unit, and a LP absorber unit coupled downstream of the flash drum. The process includes introducing a HP rich amine solution from a HP absorber unit into a flash drum, operating the flash drum such that a flash...