US Patent Issued to Saudi Arabian Oil on Nov. 18 for "Recycling of waste energy and desalter effluent water for industrial reuse" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,501, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"Recycling of waste energy and desalter effluent water for industrial reuse" was invented by Mohamed Ahmed Soliman (Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for crude oil desalting technology are provided. More specifically, systems and methods for the usage of waste heat from compression to treat high salinity water are provided. The systems and methods generate recycled water streams for desalter treatment. The systems and methods can treat high salinity waters from desalters and dehydrators. The high salinity s...