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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2011
Larry W. Gatlin, San Antonio, TX (US);
Glen E. Walden, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Ernest Mcmillan, Kingwood, TX (US);
Richard A. Gatlin, Montgomery, TX (US);
Wayne Mueller, Airdrie, CA;
Larry W. Gatlin, San Antonio, TX (US);
Glen E. Walden, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Ernest McMillan, Kingwood, TX (US);
Richard A. Gatlin, Montgomery, TX (US);
Wayne Mueller, Airdrie, CA;
CST Performance Products Corp., Conroe, TX (US);
Abstract
Where the loss of volatile organics during storage of high gravity oil is minimized by forming a flowable or pumpable gel in the high gravity oil, (and/or condensates and distillates), as they are introduced to a storage vessel, the gel is broken by the addition of a small amount of an amine/formaldehyde reaction product, which may be either a triazine or a mixture of non-triazine reaction products. The previously gelled hydrocarbon may then by more readily moved by draining or pumping into a pipeline.