Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Hydrocarbon And Sulfide Removal In Direct Aqueous Extraction' Filed by Schlumberger Technology B. V.

MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517054803 A) filed by Schlumberger Technology B. V., Hague, Netherlands, on June 6, for 'hydrocarbon and sulfide removal in direct aqueous extraction.'

Inventor(s) include Binet, Florence; Bhattacharya, Arindam; Sams, Gary; Perroni, Dominic; and Mahavadi, Sharath Chandra.

The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Methods of treating an aqueous source are described herein that include reducing a concentration of sulfide species in a stream obtained from the aqueous source to form an extraction feed and extracting ions from the extraction feed, or a stream obtained from the extraction feed, using direct aqueous extraction. Other methods describe treating an aqueous source by reducing a concentration of organic species in a stream derived from the aqueous source to form an extraction feed and extracting ions from the extraction feed, or a stream derived from the extraction feed, using direct aqueous extraction. The aqueous source can be an aqueous lithium source."

The patent application was internationally filed on Aug. 23, 2023, under International application No.PCT/US2023/030928.

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