Patents by Inventor Gerardo Zavala Olivares
Gerardo Zavala Olivares 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).
-
Patent number: 11920092Abstract: The present invention is related to the use of ethylene alkanoate-alkyl acrylate bipolymers with a high randomness monomers distribution, which are synthesized by semicontinuous emulsion polymerization process, characterized because it is carried out using slow addition rate of the pre-emulsion feeding ({dot over (q)}?0.009 kgL·L?1·min?1), stabilized this last one by alkyl glycol ether type surfactants, at temperatures higher than 75° C. and with solids contents above 25 wt %, which avoids the formation of large sequences (blocks) of a same monomer. This structural characteristic gives the ethylene alkanoate-alkyl acrylate bipolymers a high efficiency as chemical agents for removal of complex water/crude oil emulsions of crude oil blends.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETROLEOInventors: Cesar Andres Flores Sandoval, Flavio Salvador Vazquez Moreno, Fernando Alvarez Ramirez, Gerardo Zavala Olivares, Erika Gomez Buendia, Enrique Cevada Maya, Jessica Valeria Fuentes Santiago, Edgar Benedicto Zamora Guerrero, Citlally Janinne Vargas Martinez
-
Publication number: 20240002736Abstract: The present disclosure is related to novel random terpolymers of alkyl-acrylate, carboxyalkyl-acrylate, and alkoxyalkyl-acrylate, and to processes for their preparation, and processes for their use as dehydrating-desalting agents of crude oil, particularly, their use as destabilizers of water-in-crude oil (W/O) emulsions, including their use to remove water and salts dissolved in crude oils with gravities between around 10 and around 40° API.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2022Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: César Andrés Flores Sandoval, Flavio Salvador Vázquez Moreno, Gerardo Zavala Olivares, Fernando Álvarez Ramírez, Edgar Benedicto Zamora Guerrero, Jessica Valeria Fuentes Santiago, Citlally Janinne Vargas Martínez, Gerardo Nicolas Rodríguez Araujo, Enrique Cevada Maya
-
Publication number: 20230348707Abstract: The present disclosure provide bipolymers, based on alkyl acrylate and hydroxyalkyl acrylate, with high randomness and controlled molecular mass, that are useful as demulsifying and dehydrating agents for crude oil. The synthesis of these bipolymers is carried out in a single stage by emulsion polymerization, a process that, in addition to having moderate reaction conditions, allows the control of the homogeneity of the chain size, the molecular mass, and the demulsifying efficiency. These random bipolymers are soluble in organic phase; therefore, these cannot be carried away by the removed water, and are eliminated in the atmospheric distillation stage. An additional advantage is the superior demulsifying and clarifying efficiency of these random bipolymers compared with the polyether formulations widely used at industrial level.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2022Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: César Andrés Flores Sandoval, Flavio Salvador Vázquez Moreno, Gerardo Zavala Olivares, Fernando Álvarez Ramírez, Jessica Valeria Fuentes Santiago, Edgar Benedicto Zamora Guerrero, Enrique Cevada Maya
-
Publication number: 20230314305Abstract: The present disclosure provides a scaled-up electrochemical flow cell for performing corrosion and biocorrosion studies of different types of metallic materials, including pipeline steels and new materials. The volume of the cell depends on the dimensions of the cell design, construction, assembly and testing or on the needs and requirements of the user or customer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Luis Manuel Quej Ake, Norma Icoquih Zapata Peñasco, Gerardo Zavala Olivares, Vicente Garibay Febles
-
Publication number: 20230287279Abstract: The present invention is related to the use of ethylene alkanoate-alkyl acrylate bipolymers with a high randomness monomers distribution, which are synthesized by semicontinuous emulsion polymerization process, characterized because it is carried out using slow addition rate of the pre-emulsion feeding ({dot over (q)}?0.009 kgL·L?1·min?1), stabilized this last one by alkyl glycol ether type surfactants, at temperatures higher than 75° C. and with solids contents above 25 wt %, which avoids the formation of large sequences (blocks) of a same monomer. This structural characteristic gives the ethylene alkanoate-alkyl acrylate bipolymers a high efficiency as chemical agents for removal of complex water/crude oil emulsions of crude oil blends.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Cesar Andres FLORES SANDOVAL, Flavio Salvador VAZQUEZ MORENO, Fernando ALVAREZ RAMIREZ, Gerardo ZAVALA OLIVARES, Erika GOMEZ BUENDIA, Enrique CEVADA MAYA, Jessica Valeria FUENTES SANTIAGO, Edgar Benedicto ZAMORA GUERRERO, Citlally Janinne VARGAS MARTINEZ
-
Patent number: 11692144Abstract: The present invention is related to the use of ethylene alkanoate-alkyl acrylate bipolymers with a high randomness monomers distribution, which are synthesized by semicontinuous emulsion polymerization process, characterized because it is carried out using slow addition rate of the pre-emulsion feeding ({dot over (q)}?0.009 kg·L?1·min?1), stabilized this last one by alkyl glycol ether type surfactants, at temperatures higher than 75° C. and with solids contents above 25 wt %, which avoids the formation of large sequences (blocks) of a same monomer. This structural characteristic gives the ethylene alkanoate-alkyl acrylate bipolymers a high efficiency as chemical agents for removal of complex water/crude oil emulsions of crude oil blends.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETROLEOInventors: Cesar Andres Flores Sandoval, Flavio Salvador Vazquez Moreno, Fernando Alvarez Ramirez, Gerardo Zavala Olivares, Erika Gomez Buendia, Enrique Cevada Maya, Jessica Valeria Fuentes Santiago, Edgar Benedicto Zamora Guerrero, Citlally Janinne Vargas Martinez
-
Publication number: 20230029640Abstract: The present disclosure refers to the development of novel random bipolymers, which are comprised of alkyl acrylate and alkoxy alkyl acrylate monomers, as hydrophobic and hydrophilic components, respectively. These bipolymers are synthesized by means of semi-continuous emulsion polymerization, under strict conditions of monomer deficiency, to ensure the randomness and homogeneity of the chains. The application in dissolution of these random bipolymers has shown a dehydrating capacity superior to that of polyethers and phenolic resins, with the additional advantage of being soluble in crude oil. The random bipolymers show excellent performance as breakers of water-in-crude oil emulsions, coalescers of water droplets and clarifiers of the removed aqueous phase, and are chemically stable under acidic conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: César Andrés Flores Sandoval, Flavio Salvador Vázquez Moreno, Gerardo Zavala Olivares, Jessica Valeria Fuentes Santiago, Edgar Benedicto Zamora Guerrero, Enrique Cevada Maya
-
Publication number: 20220135886Abstract: The present invention is related to the use of ethylene alkanoate-alkyl acrylate bipolymers with a high randomness monomers distribution, which are synthesized by semicontinuous emulsion polymerization process, characterized because it is carried out using slow addition rate of the pre-emulsion feeding ({dot over (q)}?0.009 kg·L?1·min?1), stabilized this last one by alkyl glycol ether type surfactants, at temperatures higher than 75° C. and with solids contents above 25 wt %, which avoids the formation of large sequences (blocks) of a same monomer. This structural characteristic gives the ethylene alkanoate-alkyl acrylate bipolymers a high efficiency as chemical agents for removal of complex water/crude oil emulsions of crude oil blends.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: Cesar Andres FLORES SANDOVAL, Flavio Salvador VAZQUEZ MORENO, Fernando ALVAREZ RAMIREZ, Gerardo ZAVALA OLIVARES, Erika GOMEZ BUENDIA, Enrique CEVADA MAYA, Jessica Valeria FUENTES SANTIAGO, Edgar Benedicto ZAMORA GUERRERO, Citlally Janinne VARGAS MARTINEZ
-
Publication number: 20220106530Abstract: The present disclosure belongs to the field of chemical products for petroleum conditioning, in particular demulsifying agents. This disclosure concerns the application of terpolymers based on combinations of alkyl acrylates, aminoalkyl acrylates, and alkoxyalkyl acrylates, to destabilize water-in-oil (W/O) emulsions, in order to remove the emulsified water and salts dissolved in it, specifically, in the triphasic separation units for crude oils with API densities from 8 to 40° API.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2021Publication date: April 7, 2022Inventors: César Andrés Flores Sandoval, Flavio Salvador Vázquez Moreno, Fernando Alvarez Ramírez, Gerardo Zavala Olivares, Citlally Janinne Vargas Martínez, Jessica Valeria Fuentes Santiago, Edgar Benedicto Zamora Guerrero, Enrique Cevada Maya, Erika Gómez Buendía
-
Patent number: 11261282Abstract: Disclosed are chemical products useful for crude oil conditioning, particularly to demulsifying basic compounds. Disclosed are PEOw-PPOy-PEOw triblock bipolymers, with amphoteric groups, ?-amino acid derivatives, at the chain ends, which destabilize water-in-crude oil (W/O) emulsions, thereby removing emulsified water and salts dissolved salts in the aforementioned phase.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETROLEOInventors: Cesar Andres Flores Sandoval, Flavio Salvador Vazquez Moreno, Alfonso Lopez Ortega, Fernando Alvarez Ramirez, Gerardo Zavala Olivares, Jessica Valeria Fuentes Santiago, Edgar Benedicto Zamora Guerrero
-
Publication number: 20210277314Abstract: A problem the oil industry faces is the presence of great water and salt amounts in crude oil streams, which cannot be easily removed by conventional dehydrating polymers. Moreover, the acid stimulation of wells evokes the chemical degradation of the polyethers and phenolic resins used as demulsifiers, drastically reducing their water and salt removal efficiency. Disclosed herein are new terpolymers which are combinations of three derivative monomers from alkyl acrylate, aminoalkyl acrylate, and carboxyalkyl acrylate, synthesized via emulsion polymerization by semi-continuous process under starving feed conditions, in order to ensure both the homogeneity of the polymer chains and the randomness of the monomers. The dissolutions of the random terpolymers have displayed a comparable, and even superior, water removal efficiency when dosed in light or heavy crude oils.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2020Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Cesar Andres FLORES SANDOVAL, Flavio Salvador VAZQUEZ MORENO, Fernando ALVAREZ RAMIREZ, Gerardo ZAVALA OLIVARES, Jessica Valeria FUENTES SANTIAGO, Edgar Benedicto ZAMORA GUERRERO, Citlally Janinne VARGAS MARTINEZ
-
Publication number: 20210147595Abstract: Nowadays, one of the major problems of the oil industry is the presence of large amounts of water and salts, which cannot be efficiently removed by conventional dehydrating polymers. In addition, the acid stimulation operations of petroleum wells cause the chemical degradation of demulsifiers such as polyethers and phenolic resins, reducing drastically their efficiency as water and salt removers. Based on aforementioned, a series of new copolymers has been developed, where the copolymers are combinations of an acrylic and an aminoacrylic monomer and are synthesized by semi-continuous emulsion polymerization (under starved feed conditions), which ensures both the homogeneity of the different chains as well as the randomness of the monomers distribution. The solutions of one of these random copolymers have shown an efficiency similar or superior to combinations of two or three block copolymers (formulations), when they are applied in light or heavy crude oils.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2021Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Edgar Ivan Hernandez Carbajal, César Andrés Flores Sandoval, Fernando Álvarez Ramírez, Alfonso López Ortega, Rodrigo de Jesús García Jiménez, Gerardo Zavala Olivares, Juan de la Cruz Clavel López, Flavio Salvador Vázquez Moreno
-
Patent number: 10975185Abstract: Nowadays, one of the major problems of the oil industry is the presence of large amounts of water and salts, which cannot be efficiently removed by conventional dehydrating polymers. In addition, the acid stimulation operations of petroleum wells cause the chemical degradation of demulsifiers such as polyethers and phenolic resins, reducing drastically their efficiency as water and salt removers. Based on aforementioned, a series of new copolymers has been developed; these copolymers are combinations of an acrylic and an aminoacrylic monomer and they are synthesized by semi-continuous emulsion polymerization (under starved feed conditions), which ensures both the homogeneity of the different chains as well as the randomness of the monomers distribution. The solutions of one of these random copolymers have shown an efficiency similar or superior to combinations of two or three block copolymers (formulations), when they are applied in light or heavy crude oils.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETROLEOInventors: Edgar Iván Hernández Carbajal, César Andrés Flores Sandoval, Fernando Álvarez Ramírez, Alfonso López Ortega, Rodrigo De Jesús García Jiménez, Gerardo Zavala Olivares, Juan de la Cruz Clavel López, Flavio Salvador Vázquez Moreno
-
Publication number: 20200347173Abstract: Disclosed are chemical products useful for crude oil conditioning, particularly to demulsifying basic compounds. Disclosed are PEOw-PPOy-PEOw triblock bipolymers, with amphoteric groups, ?-amino acid derivatives, at the chain ends, which destabilize water-in-crude oil (W/O) emulsions, thereby removing emulsified water and salts dissolved salts in the aforementioned phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventors: Cesar Andres FLORES SANDOVAL, Flavio Salvador VAZQUEZ MORENO, Alfonso LOPEZ ORTEGA, Fernando ALVAREZ RAMIREZ, Gerardo ZAVALA OLIVARES, Jessica Valeria FUENTES SANTIAGO, Edgar Benedicto ZAMORA GUERRERO
-
Patent number: 10793783Abstract: A problem of the crude oil industry is the presence of large amounts of water and salts, which can not be efficiently removed by conventional dehydrating polymers. In addition, the acid stimulation operations of petroleum wells cause the chemical degradation of demulsifiers such as polyethers and phenolic resins, reducing drastically their efficiency as water and salt removers. Disclosed herein is a series of new copolymers that are combinations of an alkyl acrylate and a carboxyalkyl acrylate, synthesized by semi-continuous emulsion polymerization (under starved feed conditions), which ensures both the homogeneity of the different chains as well as the randomness of the monomers distribution. The acrylic-carboxyacrylic copolymers show good performance as water/oil emulsion breaker initiators, water droplet coalescers and clarifiers of the remaining aqueous phase.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Instituto Mexicano del PetroleoInventors: Cesar Andres Flores Sandoval, Marco Antonio Chavez Mora, Edgar Benedicto Zamora Guerrero, Alfonso Lopez Ortega, Gerardo Zavala Olivares, Fernando Alvarez Ramirez, Flavio Salvador Vazquez Moreno
-
Publication number: 20190276750Abstract: Nowadays, one of the major problems of the oil industry is the presence of large amounts of water and salts, which can not be efficiently removed by conventional dehydrating polymers. In addition, the acid stimulation operations of petroleum wells cause the chemical degradation of demulsifiers such as polyethers and phenolic resins, reducing drastically their efficiency as water and salt removers. Based on aforementioned, a series of new copolymers has been developed; these copolymers are combinations of an alkyl acrylate and a carboxyalkyl acrylate. These copolymers are synthesized by semi-continuous emulsion polymerization (under starved feed conditions), which ensures both the homogeneity of the different chains as well as the randomness of the monomers distribution. The solutions of one of these random copolymers have shown an efficiency similar or superior to combinations of two or three block copolymers (formulations), when they are applied in light or heavy crude oils.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2018Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventors: Cesar Andres FLORES SANDOVAL, Marco Antonio CHAVEZ MORA, Edgar Benedicto ZAMORA GUERRERO, Alfonso LOPEZ ORTEGA, Gerardo ZAVALA OLIVARES, Fernando ALVAREZ RAMIREZ, Flavio Salvador VAZQUEZ MORENO
-
Publication number: 20180162975Abstract: Nowadays, one of the major problems of the oil industry is the presence of large amounts of water and salts, which cannot be efficiently removed by conventional dehydrating polymers. In addition, the acid stimulation operations of petroleum wells cause the chemical degradation of demulsifiers such as polyethers and phenolic resins, reducing drastically their efficiency as water and salt removers. Based on aforementioned, a series of new copolymers has been developed; these copolymers are combinations of an acrylic and an aminoacrylic monomer and they are synthesized by semi-continuous emulsion polymerization (under starved feed conditions), which ensures both the homogeneity of the different chains as well as the randomness of the monomers distribution. The solutions of one of these random copolymers have shown an efficiency similar or superior to combinations of two or three block copolymers (formulations), when they are applied in light or heavy crude oils.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2017Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicant: INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETRÓLEOInventors: Edgar Iván Hernández Carbajal, César Andrés Flores Sandoval, Fernando Alvarez Ramirez, Alfonso López Ortega, Rodrigo de Jesús García Jiménez, Gerardo Zavala Olivares, Juan de la Cruz Clavel López, Flavio Salvador Vázquez Moreno