Abstract: A method of inhibiting the formation of foam in a mixture comprising water and hydrocarbons, the method comprising contacting the mixture with a composition which comprises at least one ionic liquid. The ionic liquid is preferably a poly(hydroxycarboxylic acid) amide salt derivative or an alkyl ethoxylate phosphate salt.

Abstract: The essence of the method is that diesel fuel is heated in the process of periodical circulation in a closed circuit including a heat exchanger and a rotor-disc apparatus of open type in centrifugal force field of which processes of mechanical destruction and dispersion run in environment of sucked air with oxygen saturation, simultaneously with processes of separation and homogenization fine filtration is carried out at a filtering porous partition of hydrophobic material with purification fineness 3÷8 micron as well as filtration at a multilayer filter-reactor at temperature 25÷45° C. which comprises granules of multifunctional catalyst alkylating aromatic compounds and a layer of fill of powder of transitional metals or their oxides. Then the treated fuel is stabilized by adding additives on the basis of surface-active substances.