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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 17, 1996
Richard Malcolm Clapperton, Stourbridge, GB;
John Reginald Goulding, Nr. Driffield, GB;
Boyd William Grover, Bromsgrove, GB;
Ian Foster Guthrie, Cleator Moor, GB;
William Paul Haslop, Hensingham, GB;
Edward Tunstall Messenger, Workington, GB;
Jill Elizabeth Newton, Nr. Stourbridge, GB;
Stewart Alexander Warburton, Whitehaven, GB;
Albright & Wilson UK Limited, West Midlands, GB;
Abstract
The use of a stabiliser comprising a hydrophilic polymeric chain of more than four hydrophilic monomer groups and/or having a mass greater than 300 amu, linked at one end to a hydrocarbon-soluble hydrophobic group to reduce or prevent the flocculation of systems comprising a flocculable surfactant and a liquid medium which is capable of flocculating the surfactant and in which the stabiliser is capable of existing as a micellar solution at a concentration of at least 1% by weight.