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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6589497 | Process for preparing soda ash from solution mined bicarbonate brines A method for producing high grade soda ash from a solution mined brine containing sodium bicarbonate by processing the mine brine through a monohydrate crystallization step to the final product is described. The mine brine is treated to decompose and ther... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6576206 | Bicarbonate conversion in a carbonate monohydrate process A method for converting sodium bicarbonate in a sodium carbonate monohydrate crystallization process to maintain a mother liquor composition in a sodium carbonate monohydrate crystallizer below the invariant point for the crystallizer for reducing or elim... | 06/10/2003 |
| 6436154 | Use of dodecylbenzene sulfonic acid or salt as a scale inhibitor The formation of scale on equipment surface in contact with sodium alkali containing brines is inhibited by the addition of an alkylbenzene sulfonic acid or salt thereof to the brines.... | 08/20/2002 |
