Process for separation of petroleum emulsions of the water-in-oil type

US5385674A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Hoechst GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Rainer Kupfer · Hattersheim, DE
• Martin Hille · Liederbach, DE
• Roland Bohm · Altenberge, DE
• Friedrich Staiss · Wiesbaden, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 27, 1993
• Grant date: Jan 31, 1995
• Expiry date: May 27, 2013

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C10G33/04
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

In the process described, esterification products of an oxyalkylated primary fatty amine and 0.5 to 1.5 mol per mole of fatty amine of a simple dicarboxylic acid or of a dicarboxylic acid from the group comprising dimeric fatty acids are employed as emulsion breakers.