The Standard Oil Company

Richard B Stalzer

Stephen C Paspek

Christopher P Eppig

Jeffrey B Hauser

A process is disclosed for separating an organic material from a composition comprising said organic material intermixed with particulate solids, the process comprising advancing a light hydrocarbon fluid through said particulate solids at an effective rate to drive said organic material from said particulate solids. In applications wherein the product produced by said process comprises said particulate solids and undesirable residual organic material intermixed with said particulate solids, said process further comprises the steps of: advancing a higher molecular weight hydrocarbon fluid through said particulate solids at an effective rate to drive said undesirable residual organic material from said particulate solids, at least part of said higher molecular weight hydrocarbon fluid remaining intermixed with said particulate solids; and advancing a second light hydrocarbon fluid through said particulate solids at an effective rate to drive remaining higher molecular weight hydrocarbon fluid from said particulate solids.

Process for separating organic material from particulate solids

A process is disclosed for separating an organic material from a composition comprising said organic material intermixed with particulate solids, the process comprising advancing a light hydrocarbon fluid through said particulate solids at an effective rate to drive at least some of said organic material from said particulate solids, adding water to said composition containing particulate solids and residual organic material to produce a second composition, and adding an oxidizing agent to said second composition in an amount sufficient to remove substantially all of the residual organic material.

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Broadview Hts., OH, United States of America

Richard B Stalzer