US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Feb. 3 for "Two stage catalytic process for pyrolysis oil upgrading to BTX" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,286, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Two stage catalytic process for pyrolysis oil upgrading to BTX" was invented by Miao Sun (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Sohel K Shaikh (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Ibrahim A. Abba (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia), Noor Al-Mana (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Zhonglin Zhang (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for upgrading pyrolysis oil includes contacting a pyrolysis oil feed with hydrogen in the presence of a mixed metal oxide catalyst in a first slurry reactor, where: the pyrolysis oil feed comprises multi-ring aromatic compounds comprising gr...