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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2023
Filed:
May. 26, 2021
Applicant:
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Chunli Li, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Leiming Li, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Johnathan S. Hazlewood, Kingwood, TX (US);
Liang Xu, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Assignee:
HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C03C 1/02 (2006.01); B03B 7/00 (2006.01); B07B 11/06 (2006.01); B07B 11/02 (2006.01); B07B 4/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C03C 1/022 (2013.01); B03B 7/00 (2013.01); B07B 4/08 (2013.01); B07B 11/02 (2013.01); B07B 11/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and systems for treating mined sand to remove an impurity in accordance with the disclosure. An example method mined sand provides mined sand containing the impurity, contacting the mined sand with an aqueous treatment fluid comprising an ethoxylated alcohol and a sulfonic acid derivative, and drying the mined sand; wherein at least a portion of the impurity is removed from the dried mined sand after contact of the mined sand with the aqueous treatment fluid.