US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on March 11 for "Reflux arrangement for distillation columns" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,007, issued on March 11, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Reflux arrangement for distillation columns" was invented by Soelistiono Koesoemo Prasetiyo (Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia), Yazeed Menwer Almimouny (Khobar, Saudi Arabia) and Moath Khalid Almansour (Almatar, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems and/or methods for enabling a reflux process in one or more distillation columns. For example, various embodiments described herein can relate to a method that can utilize the column's feed stream to provide an internal reflux mechanism in the top portion of th...