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Aqueous drilling fluid and mobility control solution for use on recovery

US4468334A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 23, 1982
Grant dateAug 28, 1984
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Expiry dateAug 23, 2002

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S507/936
  • WIPO fieldPharmaceuticals
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

An heteropolysaccharide known as Biopolymer PS 87 comprises glucose, galactose, mannose, glucuronic acid and fucose. Biopolymer PS 87 is pseudoplastic, has a consistency at 20.degree. C. of at least 150 poise and a yield stress value at 20.degree. C. of at least 30 dynes/cm.sup.2. Biopolymer PS 87 is synthesized by a strain of Bacillus polymyxa or a genetically similar micro-organism and has many domestic and industrial uses as a suspending agent or thickener.

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