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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2014
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Eric Benjamin Frantz, Houston, TX (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods including drying a crude mineral composition including surface active minerals ('SAM') and gangue, grinding the crude mineral composition to produce a crude mineral particulate composition including SAM particulates and gangue particulates, contacting the crude mineral particulate composition with a quaternary ammonium surfactant to form organically modified surface active mineral ('OMSAM') particulates, grinding the crude mineral particulate composition that was contacted with the quaternary ammonium surfactant, and separating a portion of the OMSAM particulates from the gangue particulates using an air classifier.