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• the present invention relates to a pour point depressant composition
• a pour point depressant composition comprising a thermoplastic polymer, in an aqueous medium which provides a lower pour point in crude oils, exists as a liquid over a broad temperature range, and demonstrates improved stability to the presence of hydrocarbon solvents, and a method for the preparation of said pour point depressant composition.
• pour point depressant additives Various types of crude oils require the use of pour point depressant additives in order to improve flow at low temperatures.
• Many pour point materials are waxy solids at ambient production site temperatures. To be able to pump these waxy materials down hole, they need to be converted into a liquid form, for example by dissolving them or dispersing them into a liquid medium.
• Organic solvents such as xylene have been used as such a medium.
• they are not desirable for a variety of reasons, including flammability, environmental impact, and economic considerations.
• pour point depressants When used in cold climates, these solutions or dispersions of pour point depressants must also remain as liquids at low temperatures, such as -10°C, or lower.
• One solution has been to disperse the waxy pour point depressants in a mixture of water and a glycol such as ethylene glycol or propylene glycol. Using water is economical and it also adds to safety by not requiring the use of a flammable liquid medium.
• copolymers of ethylene and vinylesters of d to C4 fatty acids have shown to be effective flow improvers for crude oils and middle distillates (these are the so-called ethylene vinyl acetate copolymers (EVA-copolymers), for example see USP 3,048,479; 3,567,639; and 3,669,189.
• EVA-copolymers ethylene vinyl acetate copolymers
• WO 2012170241 and WO 2012170242 disclose aqueous pour point depressant dispersion compositions comprising EVA and a method to make said compositions.
• aqueous pour point depressant dispersion compositions comprising EVA and a method to make said compositions.
• hydrocarbon solvents may cause the EVA to aggregate either coming out of solution or gelling.
• WO 2012170241 and WO 2012170242 expressly teach that said compositions preferably do not contain any hydrocarbon solvent, in other words, the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion compositions disclosed are preferably hydrocarbon solvent-free.
• a pour point depressant comprising suitable additives dispersed in water which provides a lowering of the pour point in crude oils, exists as a liquid over a broad temperature range (ambient to 40°C), and demonstrates improved stability to the presence of even trace levels of hydrocarbon solvents.
• the present invention is such an aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition
• aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition comprising: (i) ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA) in an amount of from 12 to 50 weight percent; (ii) a dispersing agent, preferably a sodium or potassium salt of oleic acid, stearic acid, behenic acid or euric acid or a potassium salt of oleic acid, stearic acid, behenic acid or euric acid, or mixtures thereof in an amount of from 1 to 10 weight percent; (iii) a nonionic ethoxy-containing surfactant; preferably primary alcohol ethoxylates, branched secondary alcohol ethoxylates, secondary alcohol ethoxylates, ethylene oxide/propylene oxide copolymers (EO/POs), alkyl polyglucosides, nonylphenol ethoxylates, octylphenol ethoxylates, and
• the dispersing agent (ii) comprises one or more of: a) a fatty acid/salt having the formula R COOR 2 wherein R x is a straight chain, saturated or unsaturated, hydrocarbon radical of 8 to 25 carbon atoms and R 2 is H or a base-forming radical; b) an alkyl, arene and/or alkylarene sulfonate; c) a salt of a polymer of alkyl acrylate and/or alkyl methacrylate and acrylic and/or methacrylic acid, or a salt of partial esters of maleic anhydride-styrene copolymers; d) a cationic surfactant; e) zwitterionic surfactant; or f) a nonionic surfactant.
• R COOR 2 wherein R x is a straight chain, saturated or unsaturated, hydrocarbon radical of 8 to 25 carbon atoms and R 2 is H or a base-forming radical
• R x is
• the present invention is a method of inhibiting the deposition of paraffin and/or improving the flow properties of oil comprising adding to the oil an effective amount of the pour point depressant composition described herein above.
• FIG.l is a schematic representation of a typical melt-extrusion apparatus used to prepare the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion compositions of the present invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
• Component (i), useful in the pour point depressant composition of the present invention is a thermoplastic polymer.
• a suitable thermoplastic polymer for the present invention is a copolymer of ethylene with at least one vinyl ester of a saturated aliphatic Ci to C24 - carboxylic acid, for example, see USP 3,382,055. In such polymers, different vinyl esters can concurrently be used.
• the polymers can in principle be prepared by bulk, emulsion, or solution
• vinyl esters of acetic acid, propionic acid, butyric acid, 2-ethylhexane carboxylic acid, pelargonic acid, and stearic acid, particularly C 2 to C 4 -carboxylic acids, and especially vinyl acetate can be used.
• a preferred thermoplastic polymer is an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer.
• the vinylester content is in the range from 10 to 80 percent, preferably 15 to 45 percent, more preferably 15 to 32 percent, more preferably 18 to 32 percent by weight.
• Copolymers having a vinyl ester content less than 30 percent may be suitably prepared by a bulk high-pressure process.
• Copolymers having from 3 to 20 molar parts of ethylene per molar part of vinyl acetate, having a molecular weight of 1,000 to 2,900, having a slight degree of branching of the ethylene chains, and prepared by free radical solution polymerization are described in German Patent Publication No. 1,914,756.
• the melt viscosity index determined according to ASTM Test- Method D 1238-6 T, is between 1 and 800 grams per 10 minutes (g/10 min), preferably 5 to 400 g/10 min, more preferably 5 to 150 g/10 min.
• melt viscosity index is determined according to ASTM D1238 at 190°C and a load of 2.16 kilograms (kg).
• the ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer comprises 18 to 32 weight percent vinyl acetate and has a melt index of 8 - 150 g/10 min determined according to ASTM D1238 at 190°C and 2.16 kg.
• the ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer comprises 32 weight percent vinyl acetate and has a melt index of 43 g/10 min determined according to ASTM D1238 at 190°C and 2.16 kg.
• Said copolymers of ethylene with at least one vinyl ester of a saturated aliphatic carboxylic acid of the present invention are insoluble at room temperature in the carrier medium.
• thermoplastic polymer used in the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition of the present invention is used in an amount equal to or greater than 20 weight percent, more preferably in an amount equal to or greater than 23 weight percent, and more preferably in an amount equal to or greater than 25 weight percent based on the total weight of the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition.
• thermoplastic polymer used in the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition of the present invention is used in an amount equal to or less than 65 weight percent, more preferably in an amount equal to or less than 60 weight percent, and more preferably in an amount equal to or less than 50 weight percent based on the total weight of the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition.
• the aqueous pour point dispersion compositions of the present invention include as component (ii) a dispersing agent.
• a dispersing agent means an agent that aids in the formation and/or stabilization of a dispersion.
• Some dispersing agents can also be used to form emulsions and are described in detail by Paul Becher (Emulsions: Theory and Practice, 3 rd edition, Oxford University, New York, 2001), incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
• Suitable dispersing agents, sometimes referred to as surfactants, for use in the present invention as component (ii) can be classified as anionic, cationic, zwitterionic, or non-ionic.
• Anionic surfactants include substances containing a long lipophilic tail bonded to a water-soluble (hydrophilic) group, wherein the hydrophilic group contains an anionic moiety such as a carboxylic acid, sulfonic acid, or phenolic group, neutralized by a cation such as an alkali metal or ammonium.
• the lipophilic tail is preferably an alkyl group, typically having about 8 to about 25 carbon atoms.
• Typical anionic surfactants include carboxylic acids or salts thereof such as fatty acids/salts having the formula R 1 COOR 2 wherein Ri is a straight chain, saturated or unsaturated, hydrocarbon radical of about 8 to about 25 carbon atoms and R 2 is H or a base-forming radical such as Li, Na, K, or N R 4 (R is independently hydrogen, alkyl, aryl or arylalkyl).
• R 2 may be a divalent or polyvalent metal, in which case the appropriate number of acid groups is normally present in order to provide the neutral salt.
• Multiply valent metal ions include Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Sn, Pb, and others.
• Typical fatty acid salts include sodium stearate, sodium palmitate, ammonium oleate, and triethanolamine palmitate.
• Additional carboxylic acids/salts useful as anionic surfactants include acids/salts, and especially sodium and potassium salts, of coconut oil fatty acids and tall oil acids as well as other carboxylic acids salt compounds including amine salts such as triethanolamine salts, acylated polypeptides, and salts of N-lauryl sarcosine such as N-dodecanoyl-N-methylglycine sodium salt.
• Euricic acid may be for example in the form of rapeseed oil, a natural oil that contains approximately 40 to 50 weight percent erucic acid with the remainder consisting primarily of chains having 18 carbon atoms.
• anionic surfactants include alkyl, arene and alkylarene sulfonates such as alkylbenzene sulfonate, linear alkylbenzene sulfonates, sodium tetrapropylene benzene sulfonate, sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate, benzene-, toluene-, xylene-, and cumene sulfonates, lignin sulfonates, petroleum sulfonates, paraffin sulfonates, secondary n- alkanesulfonates, alpha-olefin sulfonates, alkylnaphthalene sulfonates; n-acyl-n-alkyltaurates; sulfosuccinate esters; isothionates; alkyl sulfates having the formula RxOSOs R 2 wherein R x and R 2 are defined above, such
• polymeric anionic surfactants such as salts of polymers of alkyl acrylates and/or alkyl methacrylates and acrylic and/or methacrylic acid, and salts of partial esters of maleic anhydride-styrene copolymers.
• An anionic surfactant may be the salt of an acid precursor reacted with a basic material to form the salt. Preferably, the acid precursor is neutralized in situ to form the salt.
• overbased or superbased materials are those materials known as overbased or superbased materials. These are basic metal salts, preferably alkali or alkaline earth metal salts, of acidic organic compounds (carboxylic acids, sulfonic acids, phosphonic acids, phenols, and so on). Overbased materials are generally single phase, homogeneous Newtonian systems characterized by a metal content in excess of that which would be present for neutralization according to the stoichiometry of the metal and the particular acidic organic compound reacted with the metal.
• basic metal salts preferably alkali or alkaline earth metal salts
• acidic organic compounds carboxylic acids, sulfonic acids, phosphonic acids, phenols, and so on
• Overbased materials are generally single phase, homogeneous Newtonian systems characterized by a metal content in excess of that which would be present for neutralization according to the stoichiometry of the metal and the particular acidic organic compound reacted with the metal.
• the overbased materials are prepared by reacting an acidic material (typically an inorganic acid or lower carboxylic acid, preferably carbon dioxide) with a mixture comprising an acidic organic compound, a reaction medium comprising at least one inert, organic solvent (mineral oil, naphtha, toluene, xylene, etc.) for said acidic organic material, a stoichiometric excess of a metal base, and a promoter such as a phenol or alcohol.
• the acidic organic material will normally have a sufficient number of carbon atoms to provide a degree of solubility in oil and to provide a measure of surfactant activity to the product.
• the amount of excess metal is commonly expressed in terms of metal ratio.
• metal ratio is the ratio of the total equivalents of the metal to the equivalents of the acidic organic compound: a neutral metal salt has a metal ratio of one; a salt having 4.5 times as much metal as present in a normal salt will have metal excess of 3.5 equivalents, or a ratio of 4.5.
• Overbased materials are commonly used as lubricant additives and are well known to those skilled in the art. While they are useful for some applications, the scope of their utility may be different from that of other surfactants. That is, they have been observed occasionally to deposit what is believed to be calcium carbonate after exposure to an electric field.
• Patents describing techniques for making basic salts of sulfonic acids, carboxylic acids, and mixtures of any two or more of these include USP 2,501,731 ; 2,616,905; 2,616,911 ; 2,616,925; 2,777,874; 3,256,186; 3,384,585; 3,365,396; 3,320,162; 3,318,809; 3,488,284; and 3,629,109, all of which are incorporated by reference herein in their entirety.
• Cationic surfactants are similar to anionic surfactants except that the polar portion of the molecule has a positive charge.
• cationic surfactants include long-chain amines and their salts; such as primary amines derived from animal and vegetable fatty acids and tall oil and synthetic C 12 to Cis primary, secondary, or tertiary amines; diamines and their salts, quaternary ammonium salts including tetraalkylammonium salts and imidazolinium salts derived from e.g. tallow or hydrogenated tallow, or N-benzyl-N-alkyl-dimethylammonium halides;
• polyethoxylated long-chain amines such as polyethoxylated long-chain amines; quaternized polyethoxylated long-chain amines; and amine oxides such as N-alkyldimethylamine oxides (which are sometimes referred to as zwitterionic) such as cetyl dimethylamine oxide or stearyl dimethylamine oxide.
• amine oxides such as N-alkyldimethylamine oxides (which are sometimes referred to as zwitterionic) such as cetyl dimethylamine oxide or stearyl dimethylamine oxide.
• Zwitterionic surfactants include amino acids such as beta-N-alkylamino-propionic acids,
• N-aikyl-beta-iminodipropionic acids imidazoline carboxylates, N-alkylbetaines, sulfobetaines, and sultaines.
• Nonionic surfactants are materials in which the polar functionality is not provided by an anionic or cation group, but by a neutral polar group such as typically an alcohol, amine, ether, ester, ketone, or amide function.
• Typical nonionic surfactants include polyethoxylated alkylphenols such as polyethoxylated p-nonylphenol, p-octylphenol, or p-dodecylphenol;
• the condensates made by reaction of methyl or triglyceride esters of fatty acids with equimolar or twice equimolar amounts of alkanolamine; tertiary acetylenic glycols; polyethoxylated silicones, prepared by reaction of a reactive silicone intermediate with a capped allyl polyalkylene oxide such as propylene oxide or mixed ethylene oxide/propylene oxide copolymer; N-alkylpyrrolidones, and alkylpolyglycosides (long chain acetals of polysaccharides).
• ionic and non-ionic surfactants are discussed in Rosen, "Surfactants and Interfacial Phenomena," John Wiley & Sons, pp. 7-31, 1989.
• nonionic surfactants more specifically include ethoxylated coco amide; oleic acid; t-dodecyl mercaptan; modified polyester dispersants; ester, amide, or mixed ester- amide dispersants based on polyisobutenyl succinic anhydride; dispersants based on polyisobutyl phenol; ABA type block copolymer nonionic dispersants; acrylic graft copolymers;
• octylphenoxypolyethoxyethanol nonylphenoxypolyethoxyethanol; alkyl aryl ethers; alkyl aryl polyethers; amine polyglycol condensates; modified polyethoxy adducts; modified terminated alkyl aryl ethers; modified polyethoxylated straight chain alcohols; terminated ethoxylates of linear primary alcohols; high molecular weight tertiary amines such as l-hydroxyethyl-2-alkyl imidazolines; oxazolines; perfluoralkyl sulfonates; sorbitan fatty acid esters; polyethylene glycol esters; aliphatic and aromatic phosphate esters.
• reaction products of hydrocarbyl-substituted succinic acylating agents and amines are also included.
• reaction products and methods for preparing them are described in USP 4,234,435; 4,952,328; 4,938,881 ; and 4,957,649, all of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.
• nonionic surfactants include functionalized polysiloxanes. These materials contain functional groups such as amino, amido, imino, sulfonyl, sulfoxyl, cyano, hydroxy, hydrocarbyloxy, mercapto, carbonyl (including aldehydes and ketones), carboxy, epoxy, acetoxy, phosphate, phosphonyl, and haloalkyl groups. These polysiloxanes can be linear or branched and generally have molecular weight above 800, i.e. up to 10,000 or 20,000. The functionality can be randomly distributed on the polymer chain or present in blocks.
• the functionality can be present as alkyl or alkylaryl groups as well as groups such as— (C 2 H 4 0) a - (C33 ⁇ 40) b ⁇ R where a and b are independently numbers from 0 to about 100 provided that at least one of a or b is at least 1, and R is H, acetoxy, or a hydrocarbyl group.
• Other suitable substituent groups can include C33 ⁇ 4X, where X is OH, SH, or NH 2 . Examples of such materials include SILWETTM surfactants from Union Carbide and TEGOPRENTM silicone surfactants from Goldschmidt Chemical Corp., Hopewell, Va.
• Nonionic surfactants include polyoxyalkenealkyl alcohols or phenols, such as ethoxylated nonylphenol; alkanoates (preferably partial alkanoates) of polyalcohols, such as glyceryl monooleate, glyceryl monolaurate, sorbitan monooleate, sorbitan sesquioleate, sorbitan monolaurate, and sorbitan sesquilaurate, and 4,4-bishydroxylmethyl-2-heptadecenyl-2- oxazoline.
• Preferred materials include tall oil fatty acid neutralized with diethanolamine;
• TRITONTM surface active agents from The Dow Chemical Company, including the octylphenol series with 1 to 70 ethylene oxide units and the nonylphenol series with 4 to 40 ethylene oxide units; IGEPALTM surfactants (from Rhone-Poulenc) containing 7 to 50 ethylene oxide units; TERGITOLTM surfactants (from The Dow Chemical Company) containing 4 to 41 ethylene oxide units; and NEODOLTM (from Shell Chemical Company) containing 3 to 13 ethylene oxide units.
• the foregoing commercial materials are generally linear primary alcohol ethoxylates, secondary alcohol ethoxylates, or (in the case of the TRITON materials) branched alkylphenol ethoxylates.
• the dispersing agent used in the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition of the present invention is used in an amount equal to or greater than 1 weight percent, more preferably in an amount equal to or greater than 2 weight percent, and more preferably in an amount equal to or greater than 3 weight percent based on the total weight of the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition.
• the dispersing agent used in the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition of the present invention is used in amount equal to or less than 10 weight percent, more preferably in an amount equal to or less than 8 weight percent, and more preferably in an amount equal to or less than 6 weight percent based on the total weight of the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition.
• Component (iii) of the aqueous pour point dispersion composition of the present invention is a polyethoxylated nonionic surfactant whose function is to maintain product stability across in the presence of a hydrocarbon solvent.
• Product stability is defined as no visible phase separation within the formulation, and/or no observable flocculation, precipitation, or gellation of the EVA particles.
• the dispersion is stable between 40°C and -40°C.
• the stabilizing agent may also provide shear stability protection to allow the product to be transferred via a number of different pumping systems.
• the polyethoxylated nonionic surfactant (iii) used in the present invention may be used alone as the dispersing agent (in the amounts disclosed herein above) or in addition to one or more dispersing agent as a stabilizing agent. When used alone as the dispersing agent, it is present in amount as disclosed herein above for dispersing agents.
• the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition When it is used in combination with one or more dispersing agent, it is preferably used in an amount equal to or greater than 0.1 weight percent, more preferably in an amount equal to or greater than 0.25 weight percent, more preferably in an amount equal to or greater than 0.5 weight percent, more preferably in an amount equal to or greater than 1 weight percent, and more preferably in an amount equal to or greater than 2 weight percent based on the total weight of the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition.
• an ethoxy-containing nonionic surfactant is used in combination with one or more dispersing agent in the present invention, it is preferably used in an amount equal to or less than 10 weight percent, more preferably in an amount equal to or less than 7 weight percent, and more preferably in an amount equal to or less than 5 weight percent based on the total weight of the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition.
• Preferred polyethoxylated nonionic surfactant for use in the present invention as a stabilizing agent is a molecule comprising two parts: a hydrophobic part or hydrophobe comprising hydrocarbyl groups and a hydrophilic part or hydrophile containing ethoxy
• the preferred surfactant for this invention has a hydrophobe that is either free of a phenolic group and contains 6 to 12 (more preferably 8 to 11) carbon atoms or that contains a phenolic group that is connected to 8 or 9 carbon atoms (also called an octyl phenol or a nonyl phenol, respectively) and the preferred surfactant has a hydrophile that contains 1 to 6 ethoxy groups (more preferably 2 to 4).
• Preferred polyethoxylated nonionic surfactants of the present invention are primary alcohol ethoxylates, branched secondary alcohol ethoxylates, secondary alcohol ethoxylates, ethylene oxide/propylene oxide copolymers (EO/POs), alkyl polyglucosides, nonylphenol ethoxylates, octylphenol ethoxylates, and alkoxylates.
• NEODOLTM surfactant ethoxylates from Shell Chemical Co.
• 2 to 13 ethylene oxide units for example an ethoxylated alcohol with a hydrophobe containing 9 to 11 carbon atoms and hydrophile, containing an average of 2.5 ethoxy groups (sold as NEODOL 91-2.5 by Shell), an ethoxylated alcohol with the hydrophobe containing a 2-ethylhexyl group and the hydrophobe containing an average of 3 ethoxy groups (sold as ECOSURFTM EH-3 by The Dow Chemical Company), and an ethoxylated nonyl phenol with 4 ethoxy groups (sold as TERGITOLTM NP-4 by The Dow Chemical Company).
• Preferred monomeric stabilizers including polyethoxylated nonionic surfactants, have a hydrophilic lipophillic balance (HLB) values of equal to or less than 16, more preferably HLB values equal to or less than 12, and most preferably those having HLB values equal to or less than 10.
• HLB hydrophilic lipophillic balance
• HLB values are empirical numbers that indicate the emulsification properties of nonionic surfactants.
• An HLB value expresses the relative effect of the hydrophilic (water loving) portion of the surfactant (e.g., ethylene oxide chains) to the non-polar lipophilic (oil loving) portion.
• HLB values are generally based on experimental emulsification data. However they can be calculated in a variety of way, for example see "Surfactants and Interfacial
• HLB value is simply estimated by dividing the weight percent ethylene oxide by five.
• the pour point depressant of the present invention is supplied as a dispersion in a liquid medium, component (iv), preferably comprising water, in which it is not normally soluble at 10°C, and preferably also not soluble at ambient temperature, i.e., about 20°C, or even 30°C or 50°C. That is, the medium is, first, a liquid at ambient temperature (about 20°C) and preferably has a freezing point of 10°C or below. Some preferred media, in particular, mixtures, have freezing points as low as 0°C, -20°C, -30°C, -40°C, -50°C or below. Moreover, the medium does not dissolve a substantial amount of the pour point depressant at such temperatures, preferably, ambient temperature.
• the medium preferably dissolves less than 4 weight percent, more preferably less than 2 or even 1 weight percent, of the pour point depressant at ambient temperature or moderately elevated temperatures.
• the small soluble fraction may comprise impurities and unreacted materials, so that the amount of actual pour point depressant which dissolves is proportionately even less, e.g., less than 0.5 weight percent.
• the medium remains a non-solvent to 30°C or more preferably to 40°C or 50°C or higher.
• the medium should generally have a suitable degree of polarity. Polarity can be measured or expressed in a variety of ways.
• the molecules of the solvent will preferably have 10 to 80 percent by weight heteroatoms such as oxygen or nitrogen, more preferably 20 to 70 percent, and still more preferably 25 to 60 percent by weight.
• the medium may have a dielectric constant of at least 3, preferably at least 10.
• Suitable liquid media include acetates (e.g., 2-ethoxyethyl acetate), ketones (e.g., acetone, butanone, pentanone, hexanone), or preferably, glycerin/glycerol, aqueous glycol mixtures (e.g., mixtures of ethylene glycol and water).
• acetates e.g., 2-ethoxyethyl acetate
• ketones e.g., acetone, butanone, pentanone, hexanone
• glycerin/glycerol e.g., glycerin/glycerol
• aqueous glycol mixtures e.g., mixtures of ethylene glycol and water.
• ethylene glycol and its derivatives such as the monomethyl ether, the monoethyl ether, the monopropyl ether, the monobutyl ether, and the monohexyl ether
• diethylene glycol and its derivatives such as the monomethyl ether, the monoethyl ether, the monopropyl ether, the monobutyl ether, and the monohexyl ether
• propylene glycol and its derivatives including the monomethyl ether, the monopropyl ether, and the monobutyl ether; and dipropylene glycol and its derivatives, such as the monomethyl ether, the monopropyl ether, and the monobutyl ether.
• lactones such as butyrolactone
• alcohols such as butanol, diacetone alcohol (4- hydroxy-4-methyl-2-pentanone) 2,6-dimethyl-4-heptanol, hexanol, isopropanol, 2-ethylhexanol, and 1-pentanol.
• liquid medium is water.
• aqueous means containing, dissolved in, or dispersed in water.
• Component (v) of the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion compositions of the present invention is one or more hydrocarbon solvent.
• hydrocarbon solvents are, but not limited to, acyclic, cyclic, saturated, unsaturated alkane, arene, or alkylarene hydrocarbon solvents.
• pentane, pentene, hexane, hexene, petroleum ethers, cyclohexane, benzene, toluene, xylenes, gasoline, kerosene, diesel, heavy aromatic naphtha, and the like are suitable hydrocarbons.
• the hydrocarbon solvent (v) is present in the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion compositions of the present invention in an amount up to 50 weight percent, based on the total weight of the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition.
• the hydrocarbon solvent is present in an amount equal to or greater than 0.01 weight percent, preferably equal to or greater than 0.1 weight percent, more preferably equal to or greater than 1 weight percent, more preferably equal to or greater than 5 weight percent, more preferably equal to or greater than 10 weight percent based on the total weight of the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition.
• the hydrocarbon solvent is present in an amount equal to or less than 50 weight percent, preferably equal to or less than 40 weight percent, more preferably equal to or less than 30 weight percent, more preferably equal to or less than 25 weight percent based on the total weight of the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition.
• the EVA is dispersed not dissolved, in the liquid medium as compared to a solution where the EVA is dissolved in the liquid medium (for example where a hydrocarbon solvent and not water is used).
• an aqueous pour point depressant dispersion with a freezing point equal to or less than 0°C, preferably equal to or less than -10°C, more preferably equal to or less than -20°C, more preferably equal to or less than -30°C, more preferably equal to or less than -40°C, and even more preferably equal to or less than -50°C.
• a freezing point equal to or less than 0°C, preferably equal to or less than -10°C, more preferably equal to or less than -20°C, more preferably equal to or less than -30°C, more preferably equal to or less than -40°C, and even more preferably equal to or less than -50°C.
• the solution is preferably aqueous, in other words the solvent or primary dispersing liquid medium is water, and the solutes are referred to as freezing point depressants.
• solutes useful as freezing point depressants as component (iv) for water are well known in the art and consist of electrolytes such as sodium chloride, potassium chloride, calcium chloride and the like; monohydric alcohols such as methanol, ethanol, propanol, and the like; polyhydric alcohols such as ethylene glycol, propylene glycol and glycerine and the like; glycol ethers such as ethyl, propyl, butyl and hexyl ethers of ethylene glycol; diethylene glycol;
• propylene glycol and the like are preferred.
• the most preferred are methanol, ethanol, ethylene glycol and propylene glycol since these have the lowest molecular weights, and are relatively inexpensive and readily available.
• ethylene glycol is the most preferred for reasons including its non-flammability, low vapor pressure and relatively low environmental impact.
• the amount of a freezing point depressant agent, component (vi), incorporated in the aqueous dispersion composition of the present invention is dictated by the desired freezing point of the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition.
• one or more such freezing point depressant agent can be used in an amount equal to or greater than 5 weight percent, preferably equal to or greater than 10 weight percent, and more preferably equal to or greater than 15 weight percent based on the final weight of the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition.
• one or more such freezing point depressant agent can be used in an amount equal to or less than 60 weight percent, preferably equal to or less than 55 weight percent, and more preferably equal to or less than 45 weight percent based on the final weight of the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition.
• the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition of the present invention may optionally contain one or more stabilizing agent (vii), which is in addition to and different from the polyethoxylated nonionic surfactant (iii), whose function is to further maintain product stability across a broad spectrum of conditions, such as phase and particle stability at storage and shipping temperatures.
• Suitable stabilizing agents may be monomeric surfactants, polymeric stabilizing agents, and/or mixtures thereof. Suitable monomer surfactants are disclosed herein above.
• polymeric stabilizers include polyvinyl alcohol or ionomers and/or salts of ethylene acrylic acid copolymers, ethylene methacrylic acid copolymers, polyacrylic acid polymers and co-polymers and associatitive types of acrylic and urethane co- polymers.
• the preferred polymeric stabilizers are polyacrylic polymers (sold under the trade name of CARBOPOLTM from B.F. Goodrich), and ethylene acrylic acid copolymers (sold under the trade name PRIMACORTM from The Dow Chemical Company).
• the amount of stabilizing agent (vii) varies with polymer composition and solids level but a preferred range of stabilizing agent is from 0.5 weight percent to 10 weight percent based on the total weight of the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition. More preferably from about 0.5 weight percent to 7 weight percent, and even more preferably from 0.5 weight percent to 5 weight percent based on the total weight of the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition.
• the pour point depressant dispersion compositions of the present invention may contain one or more additional additive or mixtures of additives (viii) typically found in such compositions, for example, biocides, colorants, anti-foaming agents, and the like. Such additives are typically added in amounts less than 1 percent by weight based on the total weight of the composition.
• the liquid medium can also be a mixture of any of the foregoing materials, including mixtures with water, as long as the pour point depressant is substantially insoluble in such mixtures.
• the liquid medium is a mixture of a glycol and water, the relative amounts of the materials are such that the water component will not freeze even at low temperatures such as 0°C to -40°C.
• Preferred weight ratios for such water:glycol mixtures are: 40:60, 50:50, 60:40 to 70:30. However, it is understood that the ratios used are not held to the ones listed herein above, but are dictated by the ultimate freezing point to be achieved and may be easily determined by one skilled in the art without undue experimentation.
• the liquid medium is used in the present invention in an amount equal to or greater than 35 weight percent, more preferably in an amount equal to or greater than 40 weight percent, and more preferably in an amount equal to or greater than 45 weight percent based on the total weight of the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition.
• the liquid medium is used in the present invention in an amount equal to or less than 85 weight percent, more preferably in an amount equal to or less than 80 weight percent, and more preferably in an amount equal to or less than 75 weight percent based on the total weight of the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition.
• melt -kneading Any melt-kneading means known in the art may be used. In some embodiments a kneader, a Banbury mixer, single-screw extruder, or a multi-screw extruder is used. The melt-kneading may be conducted under the conditions which are typically used for melt-kneading the thermoplastic resin (i).
• a process for producing the dispersions in accordance with the present invention is not particularly limited. One preferred process, for example, is a process comprising melt-kneading the thermoplastic polymer (i), dispersing agent (ii), and any other additives according to USP 5,756,659;
• a preferred melt-kneading machine is, for example, a multi screw extruder having two or more screws, to which a kneading block can be added at any position of the screws. If desired, it is allowable that the extruder is provided with a first material-supplying inlet and a second material-supplying inlet, and further third and forth material-supplying inlets in this order from the upper stream to the downstream along the flow direction of a material to be kneaded.
• the pour point dispersion comprising the thermoplastic polymer, dispersing agent, and any other additives is first diluted to contain about 1 to about 10 percent by weight of water and then subsequently further diluted to comprise greater than 25 percent by weight of water.
• the further dilution provides a dispersion with at least about 30 percent by weight of water.
• the aqueous dispersion obtained by the melt kneading may be further supplemented with a glycol, preferably ethylene glycol.
• the aqueous pour point depressant dispersions described hereinabove may be used as prepared or diluted further with additional water and/or glycol.
• FIG. 1 schematically illustrates an extrusion apparatus which can be used in the process of the present invention.
• An extruder 20 preferably a twin screw extruder, is coupled to a back pressure regulator, melt pump, or gear pump, 30.
• the apparatus further comprises a base reservoir 40 and an initial water reservoir 50, each of which includes a pump (not shown).
• Desired amounts of base and initial water are provided from the base reservoir 40 and the initial water reservoir 50, respectively.
• Any suitable pump may be used, but in some embodiments a pump that provides a flow of about 150 cc/min at a pressure of 240 bar may be used to provide the base and the initial water to the extruder 20.
• a liquid injection pump provides a flow of 300 cc/min at 200 bar or 600 cc/min at 133 bar.
• the base and initial water are preheated in a preheater.
• Thermoplastic EVA polymer in the form of pellets, powder, or flakes, is fed from the feeder 80 to an inlet 90 of the extruder 20 where the resin is melted or compounded.
• the dispersing agent, polyethoxylated nonionic surfactant, and/or stabilizing agent is added to the resin through an opening along with the resin, in other embodiment, the dispersing agent, polyethoxylated nonionic surfactant, and/or stabilizing agent is provided separately to the twin screw extruder 20.
• the resin melt is then delivered from the mix and convey zone to an emulsification zone of the extruder where the initial amount of water and base from the reservoirs 40 and 50 is added through inlet 55.
• dispersing agent and/or the polyethoxylated nonionic surfactant may be added additionally or exclusively to the water stream.
• the polyethoxylated nonionic surfactant is mixed with water and added additionally or exclusively via inlet 95 from reservoir 60 in a dilution and cooling zone of the extruder 20.
• the dispersing agent is a salt of a fatty acid
• the dispersing agent may be added as the salt of the fatty acid, or it may be added to the extruder as the fatty acid which is converted to its salt form in the extruder.
• the dispersing agent may be blended with the EVA prior to entering the extruder, and/or injected into the extruder during the extruder melt zone, and/or injected along with the base.
• the dispersing agent may be a liquid or solid (powder, pellets, or granules etc.).
• the emulsified mixture is further diluted with additional water and/or glycol and/or stabilizing agent and/or polyethoxylated nonionic surfactant via inlet 95 from reservoir 60 in a dilution and cooling zone of the extruder 20.
• the dispersion is diluted to at least 30 weight percent water in the cooling zone.
• the diluted mixture may be diluted any number of times until the desired dilution level is achieved.
• a first method to make the aqueous pour point depressant dispersions of the present invention step a, the combination of (i) ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA), (ii) a dispersing agent; (iii) a polyethoxylated nonionic surfactant; and (iv) water to form an aqueous dispersion of EVA, and step b mixing the aqueous dispersion of EVA with (vii) an aqueous freezing point depressant to form the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition, are conducted sequentially in the extruder in which the aqueous dispersion of EVA is produced.
• EVA ethylene vinyl acetate
• a second method to make the aqueous pour point depressant dispersions of the present invention step a, the combination of (i) ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA), (ii) a dispersing agent; and (iv) water to form an aqueous dispersion of EVA, and step b mixing the aqueous dispersion of EVA with (iii) a polyethoxylated nonionic surfactant and (vii) an aqueous freezing point depressant to form the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition, are conducted sequentially in the extruder in which the aqueous dispersion of EVA is produced.
• step b does not occur in the extruder in which the aqueous dispersion of EVA is produced. In this manner, steam pressure build-up in the extruder 20 is minimized.
• the hydrocarbon solvent (v) may be intentionally and/or unintentionally added to the aqueous pour point depressant composition of the present invention at any point of the process prior to the addition of the aqueous pour point depression composition to the oil to be treated (for example hydrocarbon solvent addition may occur in the extruder, post extruder in a mixer, a reservoir, a tank, a pipe line, a storage vessel, a container, etc., e.g., anywhere the oil to which it is added may come in contact with).
• the hydrocarbon solvent may be added during step a, during step b, a portion during step a and a portion during step b, in the extruder, or subsequent to extrusion.
• a basic substance or aqueous solution, dispersion or slurry thereof is added to the dispersion at any point of the process, preferably to the extruder.
• the basic substance is a salt and is added as an aqueous solution. But in some embodiments, it is added in other convenient forms, such as pellets or granules.
• the basic substance and water are added through separate inlets of the extruder.
• Examples of the basic substance which may be used for the neutralization or the saponification in the melt kneading process include alkaline metals and alkaline earth metals such as sodium, potassium, calcium, strontium, barium; inorganic amines such as hydroxylamine or hydrazine; organic amines such as methylamine, ethylamine, ethanolamine, cyclohexylamine, tetramethylammonium hydroxide; oxide, hydroxide, and hydride of alkaline metals and alkaline earth metals such as sodium oxide, sodium peroxide, potassium oxide, potassium peroxide, calcium oxide, strontium oxide, barium oxide, sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, calcium hydroxide, strontium hydroxide, barium hydroxide, sodium hydride, potassium hydride, calcium hydride; and weak acid salts of alkaline metals and alkaline earth metals such as sodium carbonate, potassium carbonate, sodium hydrogencarbonate, potassium hydrogencarbonate, calcium
• the basic substance is a hydroxide of an alkaline metal or a hydroxide of an alkali metal. In some embodiments, the basic substance is selected from potassium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide and combinations thereof.
• the basic metal substance (ix) is present in the aqueous pour point dispersion composition of the present invention in an amount equal to or greater than 0.01 , weight percent, preferably equal to or greater than 0.05 weight percent, and more preferably equal to or greater than 0.1 weight percent based on the weight of the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion. If present, the basic metal substance is present in an amount equal to or less than 5 weight percent, preferably equal to or less than 4 weight percent, and more preferably equal to or less than 3 weight percent based on the weight of the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion.
• thermoplastic polymer of the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion The thermoplastic polymer of the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion
• compositions of the present invention has an advantageous particle size distribution.
• the dispersed thermoplastic polymer has a particle size distribution defined as volume average particle diameter (Dv) divided by number average particle diameter (Dn) of equal to or less than 2.5, preferably equal to or less than 2.0.
• the dispersions have a particle size distribution of less than or equal to 1.9, 1.7, or 1.5.
• a preferred volume average particle size is equal to or less than 2 micron ( ⁇ ), preferably equal to or less than 1.5 ⁇ , preferably equal to or less than 1.2 ⁇ , and more preferably equal to or less than 1 ⁇ .
• the average particle size ranges from 0.05 ⁇ to 1 ⁇ .
• the average particle size of the dispersion ranges from 0.2 ⁇ to 1.0 ⁇ , preferably 0.25 ⁇ to 0.6 ⁇ .
• the diameter of the particle is the average of the long and short axes of the particle.
• Particle sizes can be measured on a Coulter LS230 light-scattering particle size analyzer or other suitable device.
• the dispersions of the present invention have a pH of from about 5 to about 13.5, preferably from about 8 to about 13, more preferably from about 9 to about 11.
• this invention is a method of inhibiting the deposition of paraffins (also referred to as wax) and/or improving the flow properties of oil comprising adding to the oil an effective amount of the pour point depressant dispersion composition of this invention.
• Effective EVA polymer doses are typically from 1 part per million (ppm) to 5,000 ppm, prefer ably 10 ppm to 1000 ppm.
• the pour point depressant dispersion composition of the present invention can be added to an oil pipeline by batch or continuous injection or squeezing, upstream or downstream of the location of any potential area likely to result in deposition of wax, gellation, thickening, sludging, etc.
• the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition may be added at any location to which the oil may come in contact with, for example, and not to be limited to, down the bore hole, down a capillary string, down an umbilical, a reservoir, a tank, a pipe line, a storage vessel, a container, and the like.
• the oil may be crude oil, condensate, middle distillate, fuel oil, diesel, etc.
• pour point dispersant dispersion compositions of the present invention may be used alone or in combination with other additives including dewaxing auxiliaries, corrosion inhibitors, asphaltene inhibitors, scale inhibitors, antioxidants, lubricity additives, dehazers, conductivity improvers, cetane number improvers, sludge inhibitors, and the like.
• aqueous solution of potassium hydroxide Upon the melt kneaded resin/stabilizing agent, 7.5 weight percent aqueous solution of potassium hydroxide is continuously fed into a downstream injection port at a rate of 0.37 kg/hr. This aqueous dispersion is subsequently diluted with additional water at a rate of 5.6 kg/hr before exiting the extruder.
• aqueous dispersion having a solids content of 51.2 weight percent and a pH of 11.2 is obtained.
• the dispersed polymer phase measured by a Coulter LS 13 320 particle analyzer consists of an average volume diameter of 0.41 micrometers and a particle size distribution (Dv/Dn) of 1.13.
• Example 1 To the dispersion Example 1 is added either water, water plus EH-3 nonionic surfactant or a water/ethylene glycol and EH-3 nonionic surfactant mixture. Each composition has 30 percent by weight solids. If present, the nonionic surfactant is present at a 3 percent loading by weight. In Example 4, the final ratio of water to ethylene glycol is 50:50 by weight, this offers protection against freezing to about -40°C. Mixing is accomplished using a magnetic stirrer, but any general technique may be used, including (but not limited to) magnetic stirring, mechanical mixing such as a blender, overhead mixing equipment, and the like. The compositions of Examples 2 to 4 are described in Table 1 , amounts are listed as weight percent based on the total weight of the aqueous pour point depressant dispersion composition.
• Examples 2 to 4 are each dosed with one of three common oil well organic solvents toluene, xylene, and aromatic 150 (heavy aromatic naphtha comprising polyethylbenzenes available as SOLVESSOTM 150 Fluid from ExxonMobil) at a concentration of 25 wt% using a hand pipetter.
• the samples are mixed by manual shaking for 30 seconds and placed on a lab counter bench for observation.
• Dispersion stability is determined using a LUMiSizer multisample analytical centrifuge (L.U.M. GmbH, Berlin Germany) which evaluates dispersion stability by measuring the intensity of the transmitted light as a function of time and position (detect flocculation, precipitation and/or phase separation within each of the samples).
• each sample is loaded into a polyamide rectangular-type cuvette (8 x 2 mm cross- section) and analyzed at 25°C: for 700 profiles every 10 sec at 3200 rpm for a total of 2hrs.
• the instability index (relative degree of phase separation) is calculated as the change in a sample's optical transmittance over time from 115 to 130mm of each cuvette (height of the formulation in the cuvette).
• the progression of the transmission profiles relates to the kinetics of the separation process based on geometric factors.
• Table 2 shows the instability index for the Examples 2 to 4 for each of the 3 solvents.

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