Breaking pumpable hydrocarbon gels

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8707978
APP PUB NO 20130081819A1
SERIAL NO

13200768

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Where the loss of volatile organics during storage of high gravity oil is minimized by forming a flowable or pumpable gel in the high gravity oil, (and/or condensates and distillates), as they are introduced to a storage vessel, the gel is broken by the addition of a small amount of an amine/formaldehyde reaction product, which may be either a triazine or a mixture of non-triazine reaction products. The previously gelled hydrocarbon may then by more readily moved by draining or pumping into a pipeline.

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LAMBERTI USA INCORPORATEDEIGHT TOWER BRIDGE 161 WASHINGTON ST CONSHOHOCKEN PA 19428

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Gatlin, Larry W San Antonio, US 40 1729
Gatlin, Richard A Montgomery, US 3 27
McMillan, Ernest Kingwood, US 4 28
Mueller, Wayne Airdrie, CA 8 166
Walden, Glen E The Woodlands, US 4 29

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