US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Feb. 3 for "Methods for distributing catalyst in counter-current reactors and methods for processing hydrocarbons" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,282, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Methods for distributing catalyst in counter-current reactors and methods for processing hydrocarbons" was invented by Khalid Ali Almajnouni (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), Mengmeng Cui (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), Pedro Castano (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia) and Jorge Gascon Sabate (Thuwal, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for distributing catalyst in a counter-current reactor may include passing the catalyst from a catalyst hopper to a perforated plate distributor; distributing the catalyst into a reaction zone of the counter-current reactor by pass...