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US 11,697,772 B2Granted
Hydrotropic composition and its uses
AssigneeKemira Oyj
InventorsAlistair King, Evangelos Sklavounos, Tiina Laaksonen, Antti Rantamaki, Susanne Wiedmer, Lasse Kyllonen, Suvi-Katriina Ruokonen
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Abstract
Hydrotropic composition comprising at least one surface active cationic component, which is selected from a group of cholinium, guadinium or tetramethylguadinium, preferably cholinium, and a straight or branched carboxylate anion having at least six carbon atoms; and its uses, for treating of oil sands or the like, for treating tailings from separation of bitumen, asphaltenes or the like.
Claims10
A method for treating oil sands comprising adding thereto an effective amount of a hydrotropic composition comprising:
- at least one surface active cationic component, which is selected from a group of cholinium, guanidinium or tetramethylguanidinium, and a carboxylate anion which comprises neodecanoate.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.