Patents by Inventor Robert G. Asperger

Robert G. Asperger 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).

  • Publication number: 20020001536
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an aqueous amine resin corrosion inhibitor composition and methods of using the same for inhibiting corrosion in equipment in contact with alkanolamine, hot carbonate solutions, diglyme and/or other solvents and acid gases such as carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide or a mixture of the two. The inhibitor preferably relates to compositions useful for inhibiting corrosion in environments in contact with alkanolamine, hot carbonate solutions, diglyme, and/or solvent gas treating systems and acid gases, and more particularly, to an amine resin solution made by reacting sterically hindered amines such as those selected from the group consisting of alkyl diamines, alkyltriamines, amino alcohols and mixtures thereof with aldehydes, aldehyde donors, the reaction product of lower alkanolamines and lower aldehydes, and mixtures thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 1998
    Publication date: January 3, 2002
    Inventors: ROBERT G. ASPERGER, SAADEDINE TEBBAL, RUSSELL D. KANE
  • Patent number: 5089227
    Abstract: Certain dithiocarbamates are used as reverse demulsifiers, corrosion and scale inhibitors, flocculants, biocides, flotation aids, water clarifiers, interface control agents and antifoaming agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Assignee: Petrolite Corporation
    Inventors: Neil E. S. Thompson, Robert G. Asperger
  • Patent number: 5089619
    Abstract: Certain dithiocarbamates are used as reverse demulsifiers, corrosion and scale inhibitors, flocculants, biocides, flotation aids, water clarifiers, interface control agents and antifoaming agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1992
    Assignee: Petrolite Corporation
    Inventors: Neil E. S. Thompson, Robert G. Asperger
  • Patent number: 5026483
    Abstract: Certain dithiocarbamates are used as reverse demulsifiers, corrosion and scale inhibitors, flocculants, biocides, flotation aids, water clarifiers, interface control agents and antifoaming agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1991
    Assignee: Petrolite Corporation
    Inventors: Neil E. S. Thompson, Robert G. Asperger
  • Patent number: 5019274
    Abstract: Certain dithiocarbamates are used as reverse demulsifiers, corrosion and scale inhibitors, flocculants, biocides, flotation aids, water clarifiers, interface control agents and antifoaming agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1991
    Assignee: Petrolite Corporation
    Inventors: Neil E. S. Thompson, Robert G. Asperger
  • Patent number: 5013451
    Abstract: Certain dithiocarbamates are used as reverse demulsifiers, corrosion and scale inhibitors, flocculants, biocides, flotation aids, water clarifiers, interface control agents and antifoaming agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1991
    Assignee: Petrolite Corporation
    Inventors: Neil E. S. Thompson, Robert G. Asperger
  • Patent number: 4956099
    Abstract: Certain dithiocarbamates are used as reverse demulsifiers, corrosion and scale inhibitors, flocculants, biocides, flotation aids, water clarifiers, interface control agents and antifoaming agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 11, 1990
    Assignee: Petrolite Corporation
    Inventors: Neil E. S. Thompson, Robert G. Asperger
  • Patent number: 4864075
    Abstract: Nitrogen-containing dithiocarbamic acids are used as reverse demulsifiers, corrosion and scale inhibitors, flocculants, biocides, flotation aids, water clarifiers, interface control agents and antifoaming agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1989
    Assignee: Petrolite Corporation
    Inventors: Neil E. S. Thompson, Robert G. Asperger
  • Patent number: 4826625
    Abstract: Use of nitrogen-containing tridithiocarbamic acid compositions as reverse demulsifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignee: Petrolite Corporation
    Inventors: Neil E. S. Thompson, Robert G. Asperger
  • Patent number: 4689177
    Abstract: Use of nitrogen-containing tridithiocarbamic acid compositions as reverse demulsifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1987
    Assignee: Petrolite Corporation
    Inventors: Neil E. S. Thompson, Robert G. Asperger
  • Patent number: 4360547
    Abstract: A fluid stream is treated with at least one scale inducing agent prior to being passed through an engine having sweeping elements which limit the thickness of scale deposits therein to improve the efficiency with which the engine utilizes the energy contained within the fluid stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1982
    Assignee: Phillips Petroleum Company
    Inventor: Robert G. Asperger
  • Patent number: 4187256
    Abstract: A graft copolymer of an episulfide and the reaction product of a polyalkylenimine and a lower ketone is water-soluble or water-dispersible. The copolymer is made by adding an episulfide to the polyalkylenimine dissolved in a lower ketone and heating below the boiling point of the solvent. The resulting graft copolymer is a corrosion inhibitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1980
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventors: Giffin D. Jones, Robert G. Asperger
  • Patent number: 4143119
    Abstract: A copper based corrosion inhibitor composition and a method for employing the same to prevent corrosion of metal in contact with acid-gases, i.e., hydrogen sulfide, carbonyl sulfide and carbon dioxide. Copper, or a copper compound and sulfur or a sulfur compound, is maintained in solution in contact with the metal under conditions of operation, particularly the thermal regeneration, which provide copper ions and sulfur atoms, particularly polysulfide moieties at the surface of the metal, e.g. copper sulfide is dissolved in an aqueous alkanolamine, monoethanolamine, solution used as an absorbent for acid-gas removal from sour-gas. The copper and sulfur moieties may be formed in situ or prepared and added in solution. The inhibitor has particular utility in protecting metal surfaces which are subject to corrosion as an incidence of the acid-gas content of either natural or synthetic gases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1979
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventors: Robert G. Asperger, Leroy S. Krawczyk, Billy D. Oakes
  • Patent number: 4102804
    Abstract: The corrosion of iron and steel by an aqueous sour gas conditioning solution used to remove CO.sub.2 from a gas stream is effectively inhibited by a combination of a quaternary pyridinium salt and an organic thioamide, a water-soluble sulfide or a water-soluble thiocyanate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 25, 1978
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventors: Robert C. Clouse, Robert G. Asperger
  • Patent number: 4100100
    Abstract: The corrosion of iron and steel by an aqueous sour gas conditioning solution used to remove CO.sub.2 from a gas stream is effectively inhibited by a combination of a quaternary pyridinium salt and an organic thioamide or water-soluble thiocyanate. The addition of a small amount of a water-soluble cobalt salt to the inhibitor combination improves its effectiveness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1978
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventors: Robert C. Clouse, Robert G. Asperger
  • Patent number: 4100099
    Abstract: The corrosion of iron and steel by an aqueous sour gas conditioning solution used to remove CO.sub.2 and H.sub.2 S from a gas stream is effectively inhibited by a combination of a quaternary pyridinium salt and a lower alkylenepolyamine or corresponding polyalkylenepolyamine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1978
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventors: Robert G. Asperger, Robert C. Clouse
  • Patent number: 4096085
    Abstract: An aqueous organic amine acid gas scrubbing system, particularly an aqueous N-methyldiethanolamine or diethanolamine acid gas scrubbing system having incorporated therein (1) a compound or mixture of compounds having the formula ##STR1## wherein n is an integer from 1 to 3, m is an integer from 2 to a number sufficient to yield a molecular weight of about 800, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are each independently selected from the group consisting of --H, --C.sub.n' H.sub.2n' OH, --C.sub.n' H.sub.2n'+1, --C.sub.n' H.sub.2n' N(R.sub.3)R.sub.4 wherein n' is an integer from 1 to 2 and wherein R.sub.1 -R.sub.3 and R.sub.2 -R.sub.4 may be joined to form cyclic amines when n is 2; said compound being present in about 10 to about 2000 parts per million parts of treating solution; (2) copper or a copper ion yielding compound in from 0 to 1000 ppm; and (3) sulfur or a sulfur atom yielding compound in from 0 to 1000 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1978
    Assignee: The Dow Chemical Company
    Inventors: Smallwood Holoman Jr., Robert G. Asperger, Leroy S. Krawczyk