US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Nov. 18 for "Co-production of hydrogen, carbon, electricity, and carbon monoxide with carbon dioxide capture for refining of crude oil" (Saudi Arabia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,199, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Co-production of hydrogen, carbon, electricity, and carbon monoxide with carbon dioxide capture for refining of crude oil" was invented by Omar David Hurtado Perez (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and Sai P. Katikaneni (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crude oil is processed to form a hydrocarbon feed stream. The hydrocarbon feed stream is exposed to heat in an absence of oxygen to the convert the hydrocarbon feed stream into a solids stream and a gas stream. The gas stream is separated into an exhaust gas stream and a first hydrogen ...