Process for preparing solutions with additives and surfactants
AssigneeIntevep, S.A.
InventorsGustavo A. Nunez, Clara E. Mata, Carolina Blanco
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Abstract
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 base at a temperature TC which is greater than ambient temperature and less than the gelling temperature TG; feeding the stream to a mixer having a mixer inlet so as to impart energy to the stream; and adding the liquid additive to the stream downstream of the inlet, whereby the liquid additive mixes with the liquid base and the energy inhibits gelling of the liquid additive.
Claims12
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, comprising the steps of:
- providing a stream of said liquid base at a temperature TC which is greater than ambient temperature and less than said gelling temperature TG;
- feeding said stream to a mixer having a mixer inlet so as to impart energy to said stream;
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- adding said liquid additive to said stream downstream of said inlet, whereby said liquid additive mixes with said liquid base and said energy inhibits gelling of said liquid additive.
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