Patents by Inventor Magaly A. Barroeta

Magaly A. Barroeta has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Desalter emulsion separation by hydrocarbon heating medium direct vaporization
    Patent number: 10336951
    Abstract: A petroleum desalting process in which the oil/water emulsion layer which forms in the desalter vessel between the settled water layer and the settled oil layer is separated into the oil and water components by contact with a heated high boiling hydrocarbon to break the emulsion and vaporize water from the emulsion in a flash drum. The vessel has an emulsion outlet for removing an emulsion stream from the emulsion layer and a conduit connecting the emulsion withdrawal port to an inlet of an optional settling drum to effect and initial separation into an oil-enriched phase and a water phase with the oil-enriched phase led to the flash drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
    Inventors: Brian D. Albert, Theodore Trent Trier, Jose X. Simonetty, Magaly A. Barroeta, Victor Alva, Michael Louis Hergenrother, Owen P. Jacobs
  • DESALTER EMULSION SEPARATION BY DIRECT CONTACT VAPORIZATION
    Publication number: 20190048269
    Abstract: A petroleum desalting process in which the oil/water emulsion layer which forms in the desalter vessel between the settled water layer and the settled oil layer is separated into the oil and water components by contact with a heated high boiling hydrocarbon to break the emulsion and vaporize water from the emulsion in a flash drum. The vessel has an emulsion outlet for removing an emulsion stream from the emulsion layer and a conduit connecting the emulsion withdrawal port to an inlet of an optional settling drum to effect and initial separation into an oil-enriched phase and a water phase with the oil-enriched phase led to the flash drum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Brian D. Albert, Theodore Trent Trier, Jose X. Simonetty, Magaly A. Barroeta, Victor Alva, Michael Louis Hergenrother, Owen P. Jacobs