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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8133922 | Polyglycerol alkyl ether type nonionic surfactant Disclosed is a polyglycerol alkyl ether nonionic surfactant which is a nonionic surfactant composed of polyglycerol alkyl ethers and has a polyglycerol monoalkyl ether content of 75 percent by weight or more and a polyglycerol dialkyl ether content of 5 percent by w... | 03/13/2012 |
| 7825163 | Biologically degradable compositions A process for making a biodegradable composition involving: (a) providing from about 20 to 80% by weight of C8-22 fatty alcohol; (b) providing from about 20 to 80% by weight of a ring opening product of a C8-18 1,2-epoxyalkane with ethylene gly... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7696254 | Method of producing liquid crystal emulsion compositions A process of producing a highly stable liquid crystal emulsion composition with improved qualities, in which a conventional complicated and costly process that requires specific equipment is streamlined into a simple and less costly process. A method of producing a ... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7429620 | Surfactant package for well treatment and method using same A surfactant blend for servicing wells includes a first non-ionic surfactant having a hydrophilic-lipophilic balance of between about 10 and about 15; a second non-ionic surfactant having a hydrophilic-lipophilic balance of between about 2 and about 6; and an anioni... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7399350 | Fluorine-free disiloxane surfactant compositions for use in coatings and printing ink compositions The present invention relates to coating and printing ink compositions possessing silicone surfactants compositions comprising fluorine-free organomodified disiloxanes which are resistant to hydrolysis between a pH of about 3 to a pH of about 12. The coatings and pr... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7374699 | Slurry rheology modifier A slurry rheology modifier comprises a first water-soluble low-molecular compound [referred to hereinafter as compound (A)] and a second water-soluble low-molecular compound [referred to hereinafter as compound (B)] being different from the compound (A), wherein the... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7341102 | Flue gas injection for heavy oil recovery A variety of methods for thermal recovery of natural gas and bitumen from a formation containing the latter. In general, the methods incorporate a series of existing, but previously uncombined technologies. A modified flue gas from the steam generators conventionall... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7279017 | Method for converting heavy oil residuum to a useful fuel A method for enabling the use of heavy oil residuum by conversion to a useful product. The method, in one embodiment, involves the use of a heavy oil residuum which is substantially non flowable. The viscosity of the residuum is reduced by heat or a combination of h... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7214717 | Polydisperse double emulsion, corresponding monodisperse double emulsion and method for preparing the monodisperse emulsion A fractionable polydisperse stable double oil-in-water emulsion, having 50 to 95 wt. % relative to the total weight of the double emulsion, droplets of an invert monodisperse emulsion Ei dispersed in a continuous aqueous phase. The continuous aqueous phase includes ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7005133 | Composition and process for treating pollution A composition for treatment of pollution comprises a first component comprising a carbon containing substance in an oil phase and a second component comprising a nutrient in a water phase, the second component being formed as an emulsion within the first component. ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6984610 | Acid based micro-emulsions of surfactants and solvents Acid based micro-emulsions are disclosed comprising water, an acid blend, an anionic surfactant, a nonionic surfactant, a co-solvent, a solvent and an oxidizer. The micro-emulsions have particular utility in cleaning oil sludges and drilling mud residues from well c... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6951892 | Means for and methods of using a selected energy factor to apply a paper coating A continuous output system makes paper coating by combining an emulsifier with ASA particles having a mean average size in the low to sub-micron region. A turbine, pump, blender or other device exposes the ASA to a number of repeated episodes of high shear until the... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6919381 | Process for preparing solutions with additives and surfactants A process for preparing a solution of a liquid additive in a liquid base wherein the liquid additive tends to gel when mixed with the liquid base at temperatures less than a gelling temperature TG includes the steps of providing a stream of the liquid bas... | 07/19/2005 |
| 6903138 | Manufacture of stable bimodal emulsions using dynamic mixing A process for preparing a bimodal emulsion of viscous hydrocarbon in water includes providing a stream of water at ambient temperature; providing a liquid additive that tends to gel when mixed with water at temperatures less than a gelling temperature TG;... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6780824 | Emulsifier system, anti-corrosive and low-temperature lubricant emulsion Emulsifier system containing a) ethoxylates/propoxylates of fatty alcohols with 8 to 18 C atoms in the alcohol with 2 to 6 ethylene oxide units and 4 to 8 propylene oxide units, b) fatty alcohols and/or fatty alcohol propoxylates with 12 to 24 C atoms in the alcohol... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6749673 | Biliquid foam furniture polish Furniture polishes, and methods for their use, are disclosed. The polishes are liquids in the form of a dispersion which is a biliquid foam with a thickener, where the foam is structured as an oil-in-water complex. The dispersion has an oil portion having a polysilo... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6740653 | Shelf life extension of microemulsions containing active aza biocide This invention relates to the stabilization of o/w microemulsions containing an active aza biocide by addition of an alkaline, water soluble buffering agent in an amount sufficient to adjust the pH to between 6 and 14 and to the use of said o/w microemulsions to con... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6703034 | Neem oil microemulsion without cosurfactants or alcohols and a process to form the same A method of forming an oil in water microemulsion includes the steps of providing at least one non-ionic ethoxylated surfactant, providing an oil and mixing the surfactant and the oil to form a microemulsion. The surfactant can be selected from the group ... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6699930 | Aqueous 1-component silicone composition An aqueous 1-component composition which forms a resilient silicone network on drying and is obtained by reaction, at a temperature of at least 40° C., of I) a surfactant-stabilized dispersion of a highly crosslinked silicone compound which carries r... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6686320 | Use of water-insoluble polyoxyalkylene-polysiloxane block copolymers for defoaming aqueous media The invention relates to the use of water-insoluble polyoxyalkylene-polysiloxane block copolymers of the general average formula ##STR1## wherein the variables and indices are described herein as defoaming agents for aqueous media. This invention als... | 02/03/2004 |
| 6677387 | Preparation of stable emulsion using dynamic or static mixers A process for preparing a hydrocarbon in water emulsion, comprising the steps of providing a liquid additive that tends to gel when mixed with water at temperatures less than a gelling temperature TG ; providing a stream of water at a temperatu... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6660778 | Method for emulsifying heat-sensitive silicones emulsion without grinding The invention concerns a method for emulsifying, without grinding, a silicone in water in the presence of a surfactant, at a temperature less than 60° C. and under shearing at less than 100 s-, comprising steps which consist in: a) preparing a... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6660698 | Methods for extinguishing petroleum-based fires, suppressing petroleum-released vapors and cleaning petroleum-contaminated surfaces Compositions and methods for emulsifying a petroleum product that has been spilled upon a portion of the earth's surface or that is burning are based upon use of a nonionic, primary surfactant composition comprising a first ethoxylated sorbitol oleate and... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6610751 | Bimodal guerbet alkoxylates as emulsifiers The present invention relates to specific compositions made by alkoxylation of crude guerbet alcohol mixtures that contain between 15% and 50% lower molecular weight alkoxylated alcohols. The lower molecular weight alcohols are the raw material alcohols u... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6593422 | Emulsions containing crosslinked and non-crosslinked silicone polyethers Emulsions are prepared by heating and polymerizing a mixture containing (i) a non-crosslinked silicone polyether; (ii) optionally, a cosurfactant which can be a monohydroxy alcohol, diol, triol, or glycol ether; (iii) an .ident.Si--H containing polysiloxa... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6593279 | Acid based micro-emulsions Acid based micro-emulsions are disclosed comprising water, an acid blend, an anionic surfactant, a nonionic surfactant, a co-solvent, a solvent and an oxidizer. The micro-emulsions have particular utility in cleaning oil sludges and drilling mud residues ... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6562872 | Emulsion of perfluoroorganic compounds for medical purposes, a process for the preparation thereof and methods for treating and preventing diseases with the use thereof An emulsion of perfluoroorganic compounds (PFOC) comprises a rapidly eliminable perfluorocarbon (PFC) and a slowly eliminable perfluorinated cyclic tertiary amine, perfluoro-N-4-(methylcyclohexyl)-piperidine and additionally comprises not less then three ... | 05/13/2003 |
| 6552091 | Block-copolymeric polyalkylene oxides containing styrene oxide, obtained by alkoxylation, and their use The invention relates to block-copolymeric polyalkylene oxides containing styrene oxide, obtained by alkoxylation, and their use as low-foam pigment wetting agents in aqueous pigment pastes with or without cosolvent and in aqueous and low-solvent coating ... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6528545 | Preparations comprising a fluorocarbon or highly fluorinated compound and a lipophilic/fluorophilic organic compound, and their uses Fluorocarbon emulsions comprising a stabilizing, particle size controlling fluorophilic/hydrophilic compound which can have the formula RF1 --W--RH1 (I) wherein RF1 is a linear, branched or cyclic C... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6524396 | Agent and method for machining metal and for cleaning metal or anticorrosion treatment A process for metal cutting using a water-mixed cutting compound and subsequent cleansing and corrosion protective treatment wherein an oil in water emulsion is used as a cutting compound which contains; (I) an amount emulsifier system consisting of: (a) ethyo... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6476168 | Emulsions having activating agents of alkoxylates of 6, 6-dimethylbicyclo [3.1.1] hept-2-ene-2-ethanol Disclosed is an emulsion useful in an inversion process. The emulsion is a water-in-oil emulsion and has an aqueous phase having a water-soluble polymer, an oil phase and an activating agent of the following formula: ##STR1## wherein n=0 to 10 and m=2 to ... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6472440 | Defoaming compositions Defoamers are the products of the reaction of epichlorohydrin and compounds having the formula II R3 (EO)n (PO)m OH (II) wherein R3 is an alkyl, alkenyl or arenyl group having from 4 to 22 carbon atoms; a substitute... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6468952 | Aqueous composition for plasticizing paint prior to strip An aqueous composition for plasticizing or softening paint, varnish and similar coatings prior to stripping the coating from a surface includes a combination of the active agents, e.g., triethylphosphate and a co-agent selected from dimethyl adipate, 1,2,... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6458855 | Fischer-tropsch process water emulsions of hydrocarbons (law548) Stable hydrocarbon in water emulsions are formed by emulsifying the hydrocarbon with a non-ionic surfactant and water obtained from the Fischer-Tropsch process.... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6448371 | Process for the purification of aldehyde impurities A novel process for the purification of poloxamers which contain aldehyde impurities, and particularly for the purification of the poloxamers named poloxamer 188 and poloxamer 407, which process includes dissolving the poloxamer(s) in a solvent which solv... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6437008 | Aqueous organopolysiloxane emulsion and method for the preparation thereof Disclosed is an aqueous organopolysiloxane emulsion for use as an adjuvant to hair-care treatment toiletry preparations suitable in respect of the good storage stability and relatively large average diameter of the organopolysiloxane droplets of 0.1 to 1.... | 08/20/2002 |
| 6420323 | Low-foam emulgator system and emulsion concentrate containing the same A low-foam emulsifier system is presented containing (a) an ethoxylate/propoxylate of one or more C8 -C18 fatty alcohols, where the ethoxylate/propoxylate contains 2 to 6 ethylene oxide units and 4 to 8 propylene oxide units, with (b... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6417258 | Antifoaming compositions An antifoaming composition contains (A) 58 to 90% by weight of an oil compound and (B) 10 to 42% by weight of a mixture. The oil compound (A) consisting essentially of (i) 80 to 99.9% by weight of an organopolysiloxane composed of R13 | 07/09/2002 |
| 6410605 | Process for preparing emulsion A process for preparing a solid particles-containing emulsion comprising mixing an oil droplets-in-water emulsion with lipophilic solid particles or a dispersion thereof, thereby allowing to include the lipophilic solid particles in the oil droplets. The ... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6350835 | Emulsions of peroxyesters The invention relates to aqueous emulsions of peroxyesters comprising an anti-freeze agent, a polyvinyl acetate with a degree of hydrolysis between 45 and 68%, and a non-ionic surfactant with an HLB value greater than 16 selected from alkylene oxide block... | 02/26/2002 |
