Liquid purification or separation – Processes – Making an insoluble substance or accreting suspended...
Patent
1986-04-18
1988-08-23
Hruskoci, Peter
Liquid purification or separation
Processes
Making an insoluble substance or accreting suspended...
166267, 208188, 210716, 210737, 252330, B01D 1705
Patent
active
047659106
ABSTRACT:
Sulfonate surfactants are removed from crude oil or crude oil emulsions, such as may be produced using enhanced recovery methods, by mixing with an aqueous solution of synthetic brine such as ammonium chloride, allowing the phases to separate, and removing the aqueous phase containing brine and sulfonates from the organic phase containing hydrocarbons.
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Conoco Inc.
Hruskoci Peter
Schupbach C. R.
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