Patents by Inventor Meshal Alzaid

Meshal Alzaid has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12319882
    Abstract: A method of producing biodiesel using waste olive oil can include collecting an olive pulp; extracting olive oil from the olive oil pulp by soaking the olive oil pulp in a solvent to obtain an oil-solvent mixture; removing the solvent from the mixture through evaporation to provide olive oil and a residue pulp; separating the olive oil from the residue pulp; rinsing the residue pulp with deionized water; drying the residue pulp; sieving the dried residue pulp to obtain pulp particles; pyrolyzing the pulp particles to create a carbon powder; adding sulfuric acid to the carbon powder to obtain a mixture; stirring the mixture to obtain a solid; washing the solid with water until a pH of an effluent is neutral; drying the solid; obtaining a sulfonated olive carbon (SOC) catalyst; and using the sulfonated olive carbon (SOC) catalyst for transesterifying waste olive oil to biodiesel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: JOUF UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Hassan Mohamed Ahmed Hassan, Meshal Alzaid, Ibrahim Hotan Alsohaimi, Modather Farouk Hussein, Mohamed Ramadan Abdelmegid Elaassar, Hazim Mohammed Ali, Mohamed Yousri El-Sayed Ibrahim, Tarek Ahmed Seaf Elnasr Ahmed, Azzah Tahal Alenezi