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WO/2008/073396A1
The present invention provides for a composition comprising a silane having the formula: (R1)(R2)(R3)Si -R4 - Si(R5)(R6)(R7) wherein R1, R2, R3, R5, and R6 are each independently selected from the group consisting of 1 to 6 monovalent hy...  
WO/2008/073397A1
The present invention provides for a composition comprising a silane having the formula: (R1)(R2)(R3)Si -R4 - Si(R5)(R6)(R7) wherein R1, R2, R3, R5, and R6 are each independently selected from the group consisting of 1 to 6 monovalent hy...  
WO/2008/068624A2
The invention relates to additives which, when mixed with petroleum-derived oils, act as anti-gumming, anti-fouling and asphaltene dispersants. The inventive additives are characterised in that they contain condensed sulphonic alkyl cres...  
WO/2008/068628A2
The invention relates to an asphaltene stabilisation and anti-coking additive containing condensed cresol alkyl amine, a surfactant and a hydrogen donor compound. Optionally, the additive contains condensed sulphonic alkylphenyl acids. P...  
WO/2008/054289A1
A method and a device for separation of a fluid in the liquid state comprising two liquids that are not mutually miscible, with different densities, wherein a first liquid is to be cleansed from a second liquid, whereby the fluid in the ...  
WO/2008/037561A1
A filter group comprises an external container (2) provided with an inlet conduit (8) and an outlet conduit (9) for fuel, an internal volume of the container being divided into a first (5) and a second (6) chamber, which are in reciproca...  
WO/2008/034772A1
The system (1) serves for generating a discrete liquid phase in a continuous liquid phase having a first liquid or a second liquid. The two liquids coexist as separate phases, have different densities and permit a desired mass transfer. ...  
WO/2008/023979A1
Controlled formation of hydrates Abstract The invention relates to a method for reducing or avoiding deposition of a hydrocarbon hydrate on a surface that is in contact with a hydrocarbon flow which contains water, the method comprising ...  
WO/2008/011817A1
An electric field acting assembly (300) for treating crude oil, it is arranged in line with a pipeline (100), and it includes a cavity (301) with an oil inlet used to connect the upstream pipeline (100) for conducting crude oil and an oi...  
WO/2008/008749A2
Arrangements and methods embodying the invention include a hydrocarbon barrier membrane for separating water from a liquid mixture which includes a liquid hydrocarbon as a continuous phase and water as a discontinuous phase.  
WO/2008/000115A1
A process for removing polymer and zooglea from crude oil comprises oxidizing-demulsifying crude oil for 10-25 minutes by stirring at a rate of 75-150 r/min under a temperature of 45-75 and adding a demulsifier at a concentration of 100-...  
WO/2007/149537A2
The invention relates to a method for separating emulsions of oil and water, the method comprising incorporating a demulsifying-effective amount of a silicone demulsifier into an emulsion comprising an oil phase and an aqueous phase, the...  
WO/2007/115980A1
The invention relates to particular orthoester based polymers as well as the use of specific orthoester based polymers as a demulsifier for water/oil emulsions. Products suitable for use according to the invention have the formula (I), w...  
WO/2007/092733A1
The invention provides a process for desalting crude by combining water and raw crude oil in a mixer to produce a mixture. Desalted crude oil and a brine mixture are separated from the mixture. The water is obtained as a byproduct of a F...  
WO2007013829B1
A process, and a device for implementing the process, for separation of fluids in emulsion and/or in solution, and/or for low pressure distillation, in particular of water and/or gaseous hydrocarbons dissolved in crude petroleum, and/or ...  
WO/2007/067463A1
There is provided herein in one specific embodiment a process for separating a mixture comprising: combining at least one silicone surfactant (a), where silicone of silicone surfactant (a) has the general structure of: M1 a M2 b D1 C D2 ...  
WO/2007/067728A1
Therefore, there is provided herein in one specific embodiment a composition comprising: a) at least one silicone, surfactant, and where silicone of silicone surfactant (a) has the general structure of: M1aM2 bD1 cD2 dT1 eT2 fQg And :(I)...  
WO/2007/061722A2
The invention pertains to the use of a class of acetylenic surfactants to resolve or break water and oil emulsions. The surfactants are of particular advantage in resolving crude oil emulsions of the type encountered in desalter and simi...  
WO/2007/045363A1
A process for finishing textiles with oil components is characterized in that it comprises (1) preparing an aqueous emulsion of oil components using alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal soaps of fatty acids having 6 to 24 carbon atom...  
WO/2006/133262A2
The disclosed process removes or reduces impurities such as asphaltenes, solids (especially solid fines), sulfur, metals, chlorides, water, salts, and acids from bitumen, oil sands, and crude oils with a wide range of gravities. A crude ...  
WO/2006/103252A2
The invention relates to hydrophobins that are especially suitable for stabilising two-phase liquid systems.  
WO/2006/103251A1
The invention relates to the use of at least one protein, especially at least one hydrophobin or at least one derivative thereof, for improving the phase separation in compositions containing at least two liquid phases. The invention als...  
WO/2006/088674A2
A method of augmenting the separation of immiscible heavier and lighter components of an emulsion including the steps of conducting the emulsion into a treatment vessel (10), providing an AC voltage source (46), employing from the source...  
WO/2006/085772A1
A method for optimising the use of chemicals, in particular the use of antifoaming agents and emulsion breakers, for gas/oil/water fluid in oil processing plants on the seabed, onshore or offshore. The chemicals are dosed on the basis of...  
WO/2006/084816A1
The invention relates to the use of non-dendrimeric, highly functional, hyperbranched polymers as demulsifiers for cracking crude oil emulsions. The hyperbranched polymers are preferably hyperbranched polycarbonates, hyperbranched polyes...  
WO/2006/048618A1
A method of and apparatus for obtaining 3-way separation of crude oil sludge comprises raising the temperature of by way of H and agitating through the use of C a blend of crude oil sludge with citrus derived solvent in hopper AU to the ...  
WO/2006/046881A1
The inventive method for catalysing a process for destroying stable water-oil emulsions consists in exposing an emulsion to the action of a frequency-modulated variable magnetic field and is characterised in that a modulating signal is e...  
WO/2006/043819A1
Method and device for imparting coalescence in water- in-oil emulsions by supplying an electric voltage and thereby facilitate subsequent separation of water drops. A substantially bipolar, square wave shaped AC voltage which is substant...  
WO/2006/039714A1
The fuel properties of petroleum hydrocarbon waste having an API gravity varying from about 5 to 30 are improved by heating the hydrocarbon to a temperature of about 35 °C to 90 °C and mixing the heated hydrocarbon stream with a suitab...  
WO/2006/027697A1
A method of separating oil and water in a flow-stream through a gravity settling vessel (10) in which the flow-stream (12) separates into a lower water layer (22) and an upper oil layer (26), includes feeding an off-take stream (34) of t...  
WO/2006/025762A1
The invention relates to the structural design of devices for magnetically activating fluid media, in particular crude oil or water and can be used for preventing complex organic and mineral deposits on ground and underground facilities,...  
WO/2006/012296A2
A method for separating water from a Fischer-Tropsch reactor product stream (10) in a cost effective and energy efficient matter which comprises feeding a Fischer-Tropsch product stream ( 10) to a separation membrane (100), preferably a ...  
WO/2006/002800A1
The invention relates to a device for separating water and for filtering impurities present in liquid hydrocarbons or fuel. Said device comprises a housing (1) wherein at least one coalescer element (5), which is used to separate water, ...  
WO/2006/003525A1
A compact desalting system for use in a process of desalting crude oil comprises a plurality of separation stages. Each separation stage includes a compact electrostatic coalescer (42, 62) for coalescing water droplets carried with the c...  
WO/2005/120689A2
The invention discloses an apparatus for filtration of water from hydrocarbons comprised of fresh-feed inlet, first dead end filter, that is hydrophobic, second sweeping-flow filter, that is hydrophobic, common housing containing both th...  
WO/2005/108527A2
An asphalt mastic is prepared by combining comminuted waste solids from a petroleum refinery with liquid asphalt that is either a hot asphalt or an asphalt emulsion. The resulting composition is similar in performance to Trinidad Lake As...  
WO/2005/100512A1
The invention relates to a process for the purification of crude and apparatus for its implementation. This process comprises a separation into gas and degassed emulsion and separation of the degassed emulsion into water and oil. The inv...  
WO/2005/077502A1
A crosslinked polymeric polyvinyl sulfate membrane or crosslinked copolymer polyvinyl sulfate and polyvinyl alcohol membrane, suitable for use in an acid environment, and its use for recovering acid from a feed mixture comprising acid, h...  
WO/2005/035942A1
SAPONIN-CONTAINING COMPOSITION AND ITS USES A composition for the separation of a liquid mixture into an aqueousand one or more non-aqueous phases, said mixture comprising an aqueous component and one or more non-water-miscible hydrocarb...  
WO/2005/028592A1
A method of improving hydrocarbon recovery from oil sands, oil shale, and petroleum residues includes adding a polymeric or nonpolymeric processing aid capable of sequestering cations, such as the multivalent calcium, magnesium and iron ...  
WO/2005/028065A2
The invention relates to a method and a plant for work up of aqueous organic emulsions, in particular, for the splitting of oil/ or fat/water mixtures, oil mixtures, solvent/water mixtures, paint sludges, suspensions and heavy metal sepa...  
WO/2005/005379A2
An alkoxylated alkylphenol-arylaldehyde polymer prepared by alkoxylating an alkylphenol-arylaldehyde polymer and use of the alkyoxylated alkylphenol-arylaldehyde polymer to resolve water-in-oil emulsions, especially emulsions of water in...  
WO/2005/003260A1
Disclosed is the use of alkoxylated dendrimers which have a molecular weight of 2400 to 100,000 g/mole and are alkoxylated with C2-C4 alkylene oxide groups or a mixture of such alkylene oxide groups such that the alkoxylated dendrimer is...  
WO/2004/108863A1
The invention relates to the use of alkoxylated cross-linked polyglycerols having multifunctional electrophilic compounds. Said polyglycerols have a molecular weight of between 1000 - 100.000 units and have between 5 - 100 glycerol units...  
WO2001085297A9
An electrically energised device for coalescing a first conductive fluid, emulsified in a second fluid, comprising a tube member (1), having at least one fluid inlet (2) and at least one fluid outlet (3), said tube member (1) defining a ...  
WO2003102047A9
The invention relates to polymers that can be obtained by: A) reacting an epoxidized ester, which is selected from one or more unsaturated fatty acids having 8 to 26 C atoms and a polyol having 2 to 6 OH groups, with a monoamine, diamine...  
WO/2004/094031A1
The present invention relates to the manipulation of dispersed systems, such as aerosols, smoke, emulsions, suspensions, foams, etc., by application of electromagnetic radiation, such as microwave radiation. The optimal frequency of the ...  
WO/2004/082604A2
A phosphoric ester demulsifier composition prepared by reacting one or more alkylphenol-formaldehyde resin alkoxylates or one or more polyalkylene glycols, or a mixture thereof, with about 0.001 to about 1.0 molar equivalents of one or m...  
WO/2004/076597A1
The invention includes a method for demulsification of water-inoil emulsions, oil-in-water emulsions, and mixtures of water-in-oil and oil-inwater emulsions by oscillatory mixing of the emulsions.  
WO/2004/067594A2
Polyester compositions and methods of producing and using same are provided. The polyester compositions at least include an anionic diacid monomer or diester monomer thereof and a polyether. The polyester compositions of the present inve...  

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