Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methods and compositions for clarifying produced waters for boiler feed waters
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Application No.: US15785947Application Date: 2017-10-17
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Publication No.: US10934189B2Publication Date: 2021-03-02
- Inventor: Jason R. Burney , Michael J. Murcia
- Applicant: Ecolab USA Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MN St. Paul
- Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
- Current Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MN St. Paul
- Agency: Kagan Binder, PLLC
- Main IPC: C02F1/56
- IPC: C02F1/56 ; C08L33/26 ; C08G73/02 ; C08L39/04 ; C02F5/02 ; C08L63/00 ; C02F1/52 ; C02F1/66 ; C02F5/06 ; C02F5/08 ; C02F9/00 ; C08F220/56 ; C02F101/32 ; C02F103/36

Abstract:
Disclosed are methods and compositions for coagulating and clarifying produced waters for use as boiler feed waters, for example for the generation of steam. The methods and compositions are especially useful for treatment of produced waters from steam-injection methods of tertiary oil recovery such as steam-assisted gravitational drainage. Disclosed are compositions comprising a first copolymer having a high molecular weight and bearing a low molar cationic charge and a second copolymer having a lower molecular weight and bearing a high molar cationic charge. The compositions are suitable for addition as coagulants to produced waters that have been treated by warm lime softening. Also disclosed are methods of treating produced waters from steam-injection oil recovery for use as boiler feed waters to generate steam in such steam injection methods.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180105442A1 METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR CLARIFYING PRODUCED WATERS FOR BOILER FEED WATERS Public/Granted day:2018-04-19
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