Dow Global Technolgoies LLC

Sumitomo Chemical Company, Limited

Rohm and Haas Company

Northwestern University

Wanglin Yu

Cynthia L Rand

Michael Inbasekaran

Michael Leo Tulchinsky

James J O'Brien

Jerzy Klosin

Daniel J Arriola

Edward D Daugs

Brad C Bailey

Paul R Elowe

Daniel A Aguilar

Stephen W King

David R Wilson

Sukrit Mukhopadhyay

Michael A Brammer

Weishi W Wu

Bruce D Hook

William Hoy Heath

Arjun Raghuraman

Yang Cheng

Heather Spinney

Fang Li

Irina V Graf

Zenon Lysenko

Martin R Greaves

Chun S Wang

Jan Edward Shulman

Peng Gao

SonBinh T Nguyen

Matthias Stefan Ober

Suh Joon Han

Dean M Welsh

Yi Jing Zhu

Harpreet Singh

Troy E Knight

Andong Liu

John B Cuthbert

Justin M Notestein

Derrick W Flick

Pramod D Patil

Michael J Radler

Biplab Mukherjee

Daniel Alain Saucy

Wen-Sheng Lee

Pierre Thomas Varineau

Amit Katiyar

Xiaohua Wang

Sung-Yu Ku

Andre B Argenton

Joydeep Mukherjee

Kara S Weber

Claribel Acevedo Velez

Linda Yi-Ping Zhu

Susan K Falcone-Potts

John Hayes

Mechelle Ann Churchfield

Christopher S Letko

Shawn J Maynard

Bing Liang

Mingzhe Yu

Aslin Izmitli

Yujun Liu

Michelle L Hudack

David Bradley Wurm

Xiao Wang

Haifeng Shi

Peter M Rozowski

Sally Demaio-Turner

Jing L Houser

Paulami Majumdar

Le Wang

Neeraj Rohilla

Yiping Zhu

Wanda G Buckner

Supriyo Das

Yi-Ping Zhu

Brad Wurm

Sze S Ng

Yongfu Wu

Kari S Phillipson

Jin Yang

Stephen E Fosdick

Heather A Spinney

Lalitha V Ganapatibhotla

Jeff Johnson

Jerzy J Klosin

Martin R Greavis

Sze Sze Ng

Henry H Chen

Richard Yan

The present disclosure provides a process. In an embodiment, the process includes providing a first blend composed of nonanals, Colefins and C-Calkanes. The process includes adding, to the first blend, a component selected from Caldehyde, Caldehyde, and combinations thereof to form a non-aqueous reaction mixture having an initial water content from 0 wt % to 10 wt % water. The process includes introducing an organic base catalyst to the non-aqueous reaction mixture and heating the non-aqueous reaction mixture to a temperature from 30° C. to 100° C. and cross-aldol condensing the non-aqueous reaction mixture. The process includes forming a cross-aldol product composed of a component selected from Cenals, Cenals, Cenals, Cenals, and Cenals, and combinations thereof.

Organic catalyst for non-aqueous aldol condensation

A method of enhanced oil recovery that includes injecting a composition including an hyperbranched polyglycerol into an injection well in a subterranean oil-bearing reservoir, the hyperbranched polyglycerol being a primary alcohol that is a reaction product of a C2 to C25 carbon alcohol and a plurality of glycidols; and displacing oil in the subterranean oil-bearing reservoir using the composition.

Additive for enhanced oil recovery

A method of producing an alcohol ethoxylate surfactant or lubricant, the method including reacting a low molecular weight initiator with ethylene oxide in the presence of a polymerization catalyst, the low molecular weight initiator having a nominal hydroxyl functionality at least 1, and the polymerization catalyst being a Lewis acid catalyst having the general formula M(R)(R)(R)(R), whereas M is boron, aluminum, indium, bismuth or erbium, R, R, R, and Rare each independent, Rincludes a first fluoroalkyl-substituted phenyl group, Rincludes a second fluoroalkyl-substituted phenyl group or a first fluoro/chloro-substituted phenyl group, Rincludes a third fluoroalkyl-substituted phenyl group or a second fluoro/chloro-substituted phenyl group, and optional Rincludes a functional group or functional polymer group, Rbeing different from at least one of Rand R. The method further including forming an alcohol ethoxylate surfactant or lubricant having a number average molecular weight of greater than the number average molecular weight of the low molecular weight initiator in the presence of the Lewis acid catalyst.

Process of manufacturing surfactants and lubricants

A method including the step contacting an olefin, an alcohol, a metallosilicate catalyst and a solvent, wherein the solvent comprises structure (I): wherein Rand Rare each selected from the group consisting of an aryl group and an alkyl group with the proviso that at least one of Rand Ris an aryl group, further wherein n is 1-3.

Metallosilicate catalyst solvents for the formation of alkylene glycol monoalkyl ethers

A mixture of octanols, nonanols and decanols is useful for the preparation of alkoxylates, which alkoxylates may be used as surfactants, which surfactants have surprisingly good biodegradability.

Readily biodegradable alkoxylate mixtures

A method of producing an alcohol ethoxylate surfactant or lubricant includes reacting a low molecular weight initiator with ethylene oxide in the presence of a polymerization catalyst, the low molecular weight initiator having a nominal hydroxyl functionality at least 1, and the polymerization catalyst being a Lewis acid catalyst having the general formula M(R)1(R)1(R)1(R), whereas M is boron, aluminum, indium, bismuth or erbium, R, Rand Reach includes a same fluoroalkyl-substituted phenyl group, and optional Rincludes a functional group or functional polymer group. R, R, and Rare the same fluoroalkyl-substituted phenyl group. The method further includes forming the alcohol ethoxylate surfactant or lubricant having a number average molecular weight of greater than the number average molecular weight of the low molecular weight initiator in the presence of the Lewis acid catalyst.

Processes to prepare lightly branched surfactant products comprise combining at least one olefin and a coordination-insertion catalyst under conditions such that at least one oligomer product is formed. The surfactant products comprise a main carbon chain containing an average of between 0.5 and 2.5 branches, wherein more than 50% of the branches are ethyl branches, wherein the branches are located more than one carbon away from each end of the main carbon chain in more than 20% of surfactant product molecules.

Process for the preparation of lightly-branched hydrophobes and the corresponding surfactants and applications thereof

Treat an aggregation of particulates with two different aqueous mixtures, first with an aqueous mixture containing a sulfonated aromatic polymer component and then with an aqueous mixture containing polyethylene oxide.

Sequential treatment with aqueous sulfonated aromatic polymer and aqueous polyethylene oxide for enhanced water retention

Recover petroleum from a subterranean formulation by injecting an aqueous solution comprising a polyethylene oxide nonionic surfactants and a disulfonated anionic surfactant.

Method for subterranean petroleum recovery using a surfactant blend

A method for recovering oil from an oil bearing formation including the steps of: i) recovering an oil-water mixture from the oil-bearing formation; ii) separating at least a portion of the oil from the oil-water mixture to form a produced water; iii) adding a polymeric alkylene oxide surfactant having a Mw of less than 10000 Da to the produced water; iv) passing the produced water through a polymeric membrane to form a permeate stream and a retentate stream; and v) injecting the permeate stream into the oil bearing formation.

Filtration and reuse of surfactant-containing produced water for oil recovery

A surfactant of structure (I) is useful as a biodegradable low foaming surfactant: where m is a value in a range of 3 to 10, n is a value in a range of 5 to 20 and z is a value in a range of 10 to 25. 

Branched biodegradable low foam nonionic surfactants

Processes to prepare branched polyolefins for lubricant applications comprise combining at least one olefin and a coordination-insertion catalyst under conditions such that at least one oligomer product is formed. Low molecular weight by-products are fractionated out and the oligomer product is converted to a saturated hydrocarbon via hydrogenation.

Process for the preparation of branched polyolefins for lubricant applications

Cutting fluids for brittle materials, e.g., silicon ingot, comprise, in weight percent:

Polyalkylene glycol-grafted polycarboxylate suspension and dispersing agent for cutting fluids and slurries

A water-based cutting fluid that comprises water and a water-soluble polyalkylene glycol (PAG) having cloud point from 30&#xb0; C. to 80&#xb0; C. The cutting fluid is water-based, i.e., it comprises at least 50 percent by weight (wt %) water. The cutting fluids are well suited for use with diamond wiresaws for the cutting of silicon ingots. The fluids exhibit one or more of low hydrogen generation, no wafer cleaning issues, good lubricity, good cooling efficiency, good swarf suspension and dispersion, low foaming, are generally non-sensitive to metal ions, and are nonflammable.

Aqueous cutting fluid composition

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