公开(公告)号：US12264284B2

公开(公告)日：2025-04-01

申请号：US17894481

申请日：2022-08-24

Applicant: Eau Midstream, Inc.

Inventor： Francis Miller ,  Steve Addleman ,  Timothy Phillips

IPC: C10G27/14 ,  B01D17/02 ,  B01D17/04 ,  B01D17/12 ,  B01F23/231 ,  B01J4/00 ,  C10G31/08 ,  C10G31/10 ,  C10G33/04 ,  E21B43/16

Abstract: A method of treating a contaminated oil comprising preparing a brine solution, adding ozone to the brine solution to produce ozonated brine solution, adding a volume of ozonated brine solution to a volume of the contaminated oil, mixing the volumes of contaminated oil and ozonated brine solution with coagulant and surfactant at a shear rate sufficiently high so as to cause formation of an emulsion of the contaminated oil and the brine solution, stopping the mixing, thereby causing the emulsion to separate into an aqueous brine liquid phase and an oil liquid phase, separating the brine liquid phase from the oil liquid phase, and separating at least one contaminant from the oil liquid phase to produce a volume of purified oil.