Deconstruction of oils and materials using ionic liquids
AssigneeAdjacency Labs Corp.
InventorsSteven L. Bryant, Tyler Stephenson, Robin D. Rogers, Paula Berton
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Abstract
In alternative aspects, the invention provides process for the use of ionic liquids in the remediation and amelioration of oilsand materials, including treatment of tailings products including but not limited to mature fine tailings (MFT), separation of bitumen from oilsand, bitumen transportation, remediation of spilled bitumen and dilbit, treatment (breakage) of steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) and heavy oil emulsions, solids removal from oil processing streams, in-situ bitumen recovery, in-situ extraction from mineral reservoirs, production well chemicals, CO2 sequestration and fracking fluids.
Claims21
A process for mobilizing a hydrocarbon from an oil resource, the hydrocarbon comprising heavy oil or bitumen, wherein the process comprises:
- adding a mobilization liquid comprising an ionic liquid to the oil resource thereby forming a mixture of the ionic liquid and the hydrocarbon,
- wherein the ionic liquid is a salt having a melting point less than 200° C., and
- wherein the ionic liquid comprises one or more cations and one or more anions,
- the cations comprising one or more amines, each of the amines having at least one alkyl chain, or being a cyclic amine, and
- the anions comprising one or more primary carboxylic acid ions.
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