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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 10, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ali Naraghi, Missouri City, TX (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
422 41 ; 422-7 ; 422 15 ; 422 16 ; 422 40 ; 427230 ; 427235 ; 507238 ; 507239 ;
Abstract
Odorant depletion is reduced by passivating the internal surface of LP-gas transportation and storage vessels by the addition of passivating agents comprising mixtures of corrosion inhibitors such as phosphate esters, fatty amines, poly amides, imidazolines, poly imidazolines, quaternary amines, poly quats, dimer acids, trimer acids, polymeric acids, ethoxylated fatty amines, ethoxylated polyamides, ethoxylated alcohols and mixtures thereof in one or more solvents. In a preferred embodiment, the passivating agents contain one or more phosphate esters defined by the equation: