Betz Laboratories, Inc.

Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC

Baker Hughes Corporation

Baker Hughes, a Ge Compnay, LLC

Baker Hughes Holdings LLC

Carl E Weaver

Jerry J Weers

Lirio Quintero

Dwight K Reid

Sankaran Murugesan

Lawrence N Kremer

Tran Minh Nguyen

Corina Sandu

Brandon M Vittur

Sai Reddy Pinappu

Waynn C Morgan

Roger D Metzler

Bruce E Wright

Leonardo Franca

Koushik Gumaste

Joseph Arensdorf

It has been discovered that solid contaminants in a mixture of a hydrocarbon phase and an aqueous phase may be retained in the hydrocarbon phase by introducing to the mixture an effective amount of an oil-wetting additive to retain at least a portion of the solid contaminants in the hydrocarbon phase as contrasted with an aqueous phase. The oil-wetting additive can be a surface-active additive including, but is not necessarily limited to, drilling fluid additives, surfactants, antifoulants, nanoparticles and combinations thereof.

Oil-wetting chemicals for solids retention

Catalyst fines can be removed from heavy oils, such as marine fuel oils, by introducing an additive in an effective amount to at least partially remove the catalyst fines, where the additive is an oxyalkylated acid-catalyzed alkylphenol formaldehyde resin and/or a Mannich condensate base resin copolymer.

Removing catalyst fines from heavy oils

The impact of a stabilizing additive for treating oil-based fluids having destabilized solids, such as asphaltenes and polynuclear aromatics, may be quantitatively assessed, by determining the settling rate of flocculated destabilized solids in samples of untreated oil-based fluids and oil-based fluids treated with the stabilizing additive through the use of a turbidity meter or nephelometer while the field and quantifying the difference between the two settling rates to determine if a change in the amount of stabilizing additive applied to the oil-based fluid is necessary.

Method for quantitatively assessing stability additive performance at field dosages

Contaminants, such as volatile organic compounds and hydrogen sulfide, may be removed from a gaseous feedstream by introducing the gaseous feedstream into a treatment chamber containing a liquid medium comprising a hydrogen sulfide or mercaptan scavenger or a blend comprising (i) an absorbent and (ii) a glycol ether and/or C-Calcohol, wherein the glycol ether and/or alcohol enhances the solubility of the contaminant in the absorbent.

Method of enhancing removal of gaseous contaminants from a feedstream in a treatment chamber having liquid medium

Disclosed is an oil-in-water microemulsion composition for cleaning grease and oil with an optional deodorizing property. The composition comprises a cyclic organic solvent, an ether of an oligomeric glycol, a monoether of a monomeric glycol, a derivative of an aromatic sulfonic acid, water and, optionally, and a deodorizing additive.

Microemulsion cleaning composition

A method for the inhibition and removal of ammonium chloride deposits on the internal surfaces of the equipment in a refinery which processes liquid hydrocarbon at elevated temperatures consisting of adding to the liquid hydrocarbon a non-filming polyamine. The amount of non-filming polyamine added to the system is based upon the amount of ammonium chloride present in the system and is preferably in the range of about 1 to 10 moles per mole of ammonium chloride.

Method for the inhibition and removal of ammonium chloride deposition in

A method for the inhibition and removal Of ammonium chloride deposition in hydrocarbon processing units comprising adding to the hydrocarbon liquid an amide selected from the group consisting of dimethylformamide and 1,3-dimethyl-2-thiourea.

The present invention pertains to methods and compositions for inhibiting polymerization of hydrocarbons during processing and storage. The methods comprise adding an effective amount of a hydroxyalkylhydroxylamine compound to the hydrocarbon sought to be treated.

Methods for inhibiting polymerization of hydrocarbons utilizing a

A method for the inhibition and removal of ammonium chloride deposition in hydrocarbon processing units comprising adding a phosphatide to the hydrocarbon liquid. A preferred phosphatide is lecithin.

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Carl E Weaver