MECHANICALLY RESILIENT BITUMEN MICROCAPSULES FOR MIDSTREAM TRANSPORT

    公开(公告)号:US20240336847A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-10

    申请号:US18380561

    申请日:2023-10-16

    IPC分类号: C10C3/16 C08L95/00 C10G1/00

    摘要: Disclosed herein are methods of preparing bitumen for transport, apparatus for preparing bitumen for transport, methods of transporting bitumen, and transportation-ready forms of bitumen. Instead of relying on exogenous components to induce bitumen solidification, the methods and apparatus of the present disclosure reorganize bituminous materials derived from the same origin into core-shell bitumen microcapsules, such that relatively low solubility components (e.g. asphaltenes) encapsulate relatively high solubility components (e.g. maltenes). Importantly, the bitumen microcapsules of the present disclosure are sufficiently mechanically resilient to meet one or more thresholds for midstream transportation, and they are readily fluidized for downstream processing with conventional technologies. Taken together, these aspects may ameliorate one or more challenges in achieving commercially viable bitumen solidification technologies.

    Sidewall-functionalized carbon nanotubes, and methods for making the same
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    发明申请
    Sidewall-functionalized carbon nanotubes, and methods for making the same 有权
    侧壁官能化碳纳米管及其制造方法

    公开(公告)号:US20100240922A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-09-23

    申请号:US11475776

    申请日:2006-06-27

    IPC分类号: C07C69/94

    摘要: The invention provides a method of functionalizing the sidewalls of a plurality of carbon nanotubes with oxygen moieties, the method comprising: exposing a carbon nanotube dispersion to an ozone/oxygen mixture to form a plurality of ozonized carbon nanotubes; and contacting the plurality of ozonized carbon nanotubes with a cleaving agent to form a plurality of sidewall-functionalized carbon nanotubes.

    摘要翻译: 本发明提供了一种用氧部分官能化多个碳纳米管的侧壁的方法,所述方法包括:将碳纳米管分散体暴露于臭氧/氧混合物以形成多个臭氧化碳纳米管; 以及使所述多个臭氧化碳纳米管与切割剂接触以形成多个侧壁官能化的碳纳米管。