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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:
Sep. 06, 1983
Filed:
Aug. 24, 1981
Applicant:
Inventor:
Philip Merchant, Jr, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Exxon Research and Engineering Co., Florham Park, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
204190 ; 208188 ; 210708 ; 210748 ;
Abstract
A surface active agent characterized as an ethoxylated or propoxylated ester, or ester constituted of a 1,4 sorbitan skeleton to which at least one and up to three ethoxy, propoxy, or mixed ethoxy-propoxy substitutent, and at least one fatty acid substitutent is attached through oxygen to the 2,3,5 and 6 carbon atoms. The surfactant is useful for removing very finely divided particulate solids from unconventional whole heavy petroleum crudes, heavy petroleum crude fractions, and residua, syncrudes and syncrude fractions, particularly shale oil and shale oil fractions, by the use of novel surface active agents.