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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 21, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2018
Baker Hughes Holdings Llc, Houston, TX (US);
Jerry Weers, Houston, TX (US);
Henry Nguyen, Houston, TX (US);
David Jennings, Houston, TX (US);
Kung-Po Chao, Houston, TX (US);
BAKER Hughes Holdings LLC, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods of treating a petroleum hydrocarbon fluid are described wherein the petroleum hydrocarbon fluid is contacted with an asphaltene inhibitor composition having an ionic liquid and an asphaltene inhibitor. The ionic liquid has a cation of RRRRNor RRRNRNRRRand an anion, wherein R, R, R, R, R, Rand Rare independently selected from hydrogen, a straight or branched Calkyl group, benzyl, a Calkylbenzyl group, a Carylalkyl group, a straight or branched Calkenyl group, a Chydroxyalkyl group, a Chydroxyalkylbenzyl group, an oxyalkylene or a polyoxyalkylene group or a zwitterion; Ris a straight or branched Calkylene, an alkylene oxyalkylene or an alkylene polyoxyalkylene; and the anion includes halides, hydroxyl, bicarbonate, carbonate, alkyl carbonates, alkoxides, carboxylates, hydroxycarboxylates or a combination thereof.