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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 1988
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
Donald F Jacques, Belle Mead, NJ (US);
Jan Bock, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Paul L Valint, Asbury, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Florham Park, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
210708 ; 210734 ; 252344 ; 252358 ;
Abstract
A method of breaking an oil-in-water emulsion which comprises the steps of treating said oil-in-water emulsion with at least a de-emulsifying amount of a water dispersible terpolymer formed by polymerization from an acrylamide monomer, a water soluble cationic monomer and a water insoluble, hydrophobic monomer, and separating the formed water phase from the formed phase of terpolymer and the oil.