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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2010
Erin Elizabeth Tullos, Bartlesville, OK (US);
John Michael Hays, Bartlesville, OK (US);
Roland Schmidt, Bartlesville, OK (US);
Joe B. Cross, Bartlesville, OK (US);
Erin Elizabeth Tullos, Bartlesville, OK (US);
John Michael Hays, Bartlesville, OK (US);
Roland Schmidt, Bartlesville, OK (US);
Joe B. Cross, Bartlesville, OK (US);
ConocoPhillips Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus relate to treatment of fluids to remove mercury contaminants in the fluid. Contact of the fluid with active outer surfaces of particles magnetically separable from the fluid loads the particles with the mercury contaminants. Magnetic separation then removes from the fluid the particles loaded with the mercury contaminants such that a treated product remains.