Methods for treating mud wash emulsions

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5614101
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08502227

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The present invention provides for methods for treating bottoms sludge and water-oil interphase emulsions present in a containment vessel by injecting into the sludge an effective resolving amount of an oil-based demuislfier. In a preferred embodiment, the containment vessel is a desalter containing a bottoms sludge layer, a water/brine layer, a water-oil interphase emulsion layer and a hydrocarbon layer and the demulsifier is injected through the mud wash header.

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BETZ LABORATORIES INC4636 SOMERTON RD A CORP OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PA TREVOSE PA 19047

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Binford, Mark S The Woodlands, TX 3 28
DeWalls, Jennifer A Spring, TX 1 5

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