MUMBAI, India, Sept. 22 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202647107529 A) filed by Saudi Arabian Oil Company on September 07, 2026, for Processes For Upgrading Hydrocarbon Feedstock.
Inventors include Choi, Ki-Hyouk; Ahn, Young-Kyoung; and Al-Harbi, Mamdouh Abdoun.
The application for the patent was published on September 18, 2026, under issue no. 38/2026.
Abstract: A process for upgrading a hydrocarbon feedstock may include introducing a hydrocarbon feedstock into a hydrocracking unit to obtain a hydrocracked product, introducing the hydrocracked product to a fractionation unit to obtain distillates and unconverted oil, the unconverted oil having a boiling point greater than 375 °C, introducing the unconverted oil and supercritical water to a supercritical water unit to obtain a treated product, wherein the supercritical water has a pressure greater than 21 MPa and a temperature above 374 °C, and separating the treated product to obtain a purified product and a concentrated product, wherein the concentrated product includes heavy polynuclear aromatics (HPNA).
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