	US 11,980,842 B2
	Adsorbent for hydrocarbon recovery
William B. Dolan, Yardley, PA (US); Roger Wyatt, West Midlands (GB); Angela Siegel, Hannover (DE); Klaus Neumann, Sehnde (DE); and Tobias Eckardt, Hildesheim (DE)
Assigned to BASF Corporation, Florham Park, NJ (US)
Filed by BASF Corporation, Florham Park, NJ (US)
Filed on Feb. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/676,747.
Application 17/676,747 is a continuation of application No. 16/831,348, filed on Mar. 26, 2020, granted, now 11,253,810.
Application 16/831,348 is a continuation of application No. 15/737,192, granted, now 10,639,583, issued on May 5, 2020, previously published as PCT/US2016/038038, filed on Jun. 17, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/180,805, filed on Jun. 17, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0168684 A1, Jun. 2, 2022
Int. Cl. B01D 53/04 (2006.01); B01D 53/02 (2006.01); B01D 53/72 (2006.01); B01J 20/10 (2006.01); B01J 20/28 (2006.01); B01J 20/34 (2006.01); C07C 7/12 (2006.01); C10L 3/10 (2006.01)

CPC B01D 53/0462 (2013.01) [B01D 53/02 (2013.01); B01D 53/72 (2013.01); B01J 20/103 (2013.01); B01J 20/28004 (2013.01); B01J 20/28011 (2013.01); B01J 20/28014 (2013.01); B01J 20/28019 (2013.01); B01J 20/28054 (2013.01); B01J 20/28064 (2013.01); B01J 20/28069 (2013.01); B01J 20/28071 (2013.01); B01J 20/28085 (2013.01); B01J 20/3433 (2013.01); B01J 20/3458 (2013.01); C07C 7/12 (2013.01); C10L 3/10 (2013.01); C10L 3/101 (2013.01); B01D 2253/106 (2013.01); B01D 2253/306 (2013.01); B01D 2253/308 (2013.01); B01D 2256/245 (2013.01); B01D 2257/702 (2013.01); B01J 2220/56 (2013.01)]

5 Claims

1. A method of removing heavy hydrocarbons from a fluid volume, the method comprising:

causing the fluid volume to contact porous adsorbent particles, the porous adsorbent particles comprising SiO₂, wherein a relative micropore surface area (RMA) of the porous adsorbent particles is greater than 10%, and wherein a micropore surface area of the porous adsorbent particles is greater than 40 m²/g.