Breaking oil-in-water emulsion using porous iron electrode
CA 1102275 A · Owner: Ford Motor Company Of Canada, Limited · Inventors: Weintraub, Marvin H.; Dzieciuch, Matthew A.; Gealer, Roy L.
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A method is disclosed for breaking an oil-inwater emulsion. Briefly, the method of this invention includes the following general steps. A porous ferrous ion producing anode is established. A supply of the oilin-water emulsion is located on one side of the anode and a fixed volume of the emulsion is flowed through a fixed cross sectional area of the anode per unit of time. Less than a passivating current is flowed through each unit area of the anode per unit of time thereby dissolving into the emulsion ferrous ion in sufficient quantity to break the emulsion. The flowing of the fixed volume of the emulsion through the electrode per unit of time and the dissolving of sufficient quantity of …
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- Granted June 2, 1981. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended June 2, 1998.
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