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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2011
Applicant:
Debra A. Riggs, Yukon, OK (US);
Inventor:
Olen L. Riggs, Jr., Yukon, OK (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C02F 1/68 (2006.01); C02F 101/32 (2006.01); C02F 103/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C02F 1/682 (2013.01); C02F 2101/32 (2013.01); C02F 2103/007 (2013.01); Y10S 210/925 (2013.01);
Abstract
The clean-up of crude oil is accomplished using an oil solubilizing agent from a class of onium halides to solubilize the oil in water. The oil solubilizing agent includes a quaternary phosphonium halide, a quaternary ammonium halide, or a ternary sulfonium halide. The onium halide also includes a hydrophobic hydrocarbon chain having from 10 to 24 carbon atoms, and can include both aromatic and aliphatic components.