US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Jan. 27 for "Cyclization and fluid catalytic cracking systems and methods for upgrading naphtha" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,674, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Cyclization and fluid catalytic cracking systems and methods for upgrading naphtha" was invented by Omer Refa Koseoglu (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for upgrading a naphtha feed includes separating the naphtha feed into at least a light naphtha fraction, contacting the light naphtha fraction with hydrogen in the presence of at least one cyclization catalyst, and contacting the cyclization effluent with at least one cracking catalyst. Contacting the light naphtha fraction with hydrogen in the presence of at least o...