Abstract: Reaction products of amino-alkylenecarboxylic acids with polyoxyalkylene compounds are used as paraffin dispersants for mineral oil middle distillates.

Abstract: A method of demulsifying a crude oil and water composition involves adding demulsifiers made from acrylic acid/methacrylic acid copolymerized with hydrophilic monomers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of trialkanolamine polyethers obtained by condensation of one or more trialkanolamines in the presence of phosphorous acid and/or hypophosphorous acid as demulsifiers for oil-in-water emulsions.

Abstract: Mineral oil middle distillate compositions based on hydrocarbon mixtures whose boiling range begins at above 160.degree. C. and ends at below 420.degree. C. contain, as paraffin dispersants, reaction products of aminoalkylenecarboxylic acids with primary or secondary long-chain amines.

Abstract: An Otto-cycle engine fuel containing a small amount of an amide, amide/ammonium salt and/or ammonium salt of an aminoalkylene polycarboxylic acid and a long-chain secondary amine as additive for cleaning the carburetor and valves.

Abstract: Crude oil middle distillates with improved cold flow properties, containing small amounts ofA. conventional flow improver on an ethylene base, andB. copolymers which consist of 10 to 95 mol-% of one or more acrylacrylates or alkylmethacrylates with C.sub.1 - to C.sub.26 -alkyl chains, and of 5 to 90 mol-% of one or more ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acids or their anhydrides, where the copolymer is reacted to a large extent with one or several primary or secondary amines into the monoamide or amide/ammonia salt of dicarboxylic acid, and the quantitative proportion of A to B is from 40 to 60 up to 95 to 5.

Abstract: Novel reaction products of aminoalkylene polycarboxylic acids with secondary amines and their use as additives to middle distillates together with conventional ethylene copolymers as flow improvers and conductivity improves.

Abstract: Alkoxylated amido-containing polyamines which are suitable as oil demulsifiers are obtainable by condensing a dicarboxylic acid of 3 to 20 carbon atoms or one of its functional derivatives with a polyalkylenepolyamine having 2 or more carbon atoms and 2 or more amino groups and reacting the product with a total of from 1 to 200 moles/mole of ethylene oxide and/or propylene oxide and/or 1,2-butylene oxide.

Abstract: Polyethers with are suitable as oil demulsifiers are obtainable by reacting(A) a polyalkylene oxide obtained from ethylene oxide and propylene oxide and containing in total from 5 to 200 alkylene oxide units with(B) an alkylolation product of a low molecular weight aldehyde and a bis-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-methane of the general formula II ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may be identical or different and are each hydrogen, low molecular weight alkyl, phenyl, carboxyl or low molecular weight alkoxycarbonyl, the molar reaction ratio of the compound of the formula II to the alkylolating aldehyde being from 1:1 to 1:4, at from 100.degree. to 180.degree. C. in the presence of an acidic catalyst with removal of the water of reaction, the weight ratio of A to B being from 5:1 to 1:3.

Abstract: Crosslinked oxyalkylated polyalkylenepolyamines which can be obtained by reacting polyalkylenepolyamines, which are completely oxyalkylated at the nitrogen atoms, in each case by from 10 to 300 groups, and possess from 50 to 2,000 repeating alkyleneimine units in the molecule, with from 0.5 to 10% by weight, based on the oxyalkylated polyalkylenepolyamines, of a crosslinking compound which possesses two or more functional groups which are capable of reacting with the terminal alcohol groups of the oxyalkylated polyalkylenepolyamines, and a process for breaking water-in-oil emulsions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for optimizing the properties of aqueous polymer solutions used for polymer flooding which comprises treating the polymer solutions under turbulent flow conditions in dynamic fluid dispersing or pumping equipment such that the residence time of the polymer solution in this equipment is less than approximately 20 seconds and the pump energy used is from about 1 to about 15 watts/liter of solution processed.This process permits the optimization of flow properties important in polymer flooding which results in the improved efficiency of the polymer flooding process.

Abstract: Oxyalkylated polyamidoamines are obtained by reacting a polyamine with caprolactam and oxyalkylating the product with alkylene oxides, and are used for rapidly dewatering crude oil.

Abstract: The subject invention relates to compositions which inhibit the corrosion caused by CO.sub.2 and H.sub.2 S in the transport and storage of crude oils, which are generally water-in-oil, in particular salt-water-in-oil emulsions. The corrosion inhibitors are mixtures of certain imidazoline or tetrahydropyrimidine derivatives, precursors thereof, or their complexes with sulfur and certain maleinamidic acids.

Abstract: The subject invention relates to salts of polymaleic acids having a molecular weight between 200 and 1500 and to their use in preventing the corrosion of metal caused by hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide in water-in-oil emulsions such as crude oil.

Abstract: Polyhydroxy-polyalkylene-polyamine salts of maleic amide acids are useful metal corrosion inhibitors for use in water-in-oil emulsions.

Abstract: The subject invention relates to corrosion inhibitors prepared by reacting certain imidazolines or precursors thereof with sulfur. The corrosion inhibitors are particularly useful in inhibiting corrosion of metal tanks caused by CO.sub.2 and H.sub.2 S ("acid gas") during the transport and storage of crude oils.

Abstract: The invention relates to corrosion inhibitors which are amides of cyclic amidines. The inhibitors are particularly useful for preventing the corrosion of metals caused by H.sub.2 S and CO.sub.2 in water-in-oil, particularly in saltwater-in-oil emulsions.

Abstract: Alkylene glycol-based coolants free of nitrites, amines, and phosphates are metal corrosion inhibited with at least one nucleus-substituted benzoic acid and at least one conventional corrosion inhibitor for metals.