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Use of demulsifying mixtures for breaking petroleum emulsions

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5753168
This invention relates to an emulsion-breaking composition comprising about 70 to 99.8% by weight of at least one silicon-free demulsifier, and about 0.2 to 30% by weight of a mixed polyoxyalkylene-polysiloxane block polymerizate, the polyoxyalkylene blocks of which have a molecular weight of about 500 to 4000 and are composed of polyoxyethylene polyoxypropylene blocks in a weight ratio of 40 to 60 to 100:0, and the polysiloxane blocks of which contain 3 to 50 silicon atoms per block. The invention also includes a process for breaking emulsions using the novel emulsion-breaking
Assignee:
Goldschmidt, Th Ag (Germany, Federal Republic Of)
Patent Number(s):
US 4183820
OSTI ID:
5753168
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English