US 11,697,772 B2
Hydrotropic composition and its uses
Alistair King, Helsinki (FI); Evangelos Sklavounos, Helsinki (FI); Tiina Laaksonen, Helsinki (FI); Antti Rantamaki, Vantaa (FI); Susanne Wiedmer, Kauniainen (FI); Lasse Kyllonen, Espoo (FI); and Suvi-Katriina Ruokonen, Helsinki (FI)
Assigned to KEMIRA OYJ, Helsinki, FL (US)
Filed by KEMIRA OYJ, Helsinki (FI)
Filed on Mar. 31, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/218,259.
Application 17/218,259 is a division of application No. 16/472,914, granted, now 10,995,275, previously published as PCT/FI2018/050015, filed on Jan. 11, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/444,864, filed on Jan. 11, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0292654 A1, Sep. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. C10G 1/04 (2006.01)
CPC C10G 1/045 (2013.01) 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for treating oil sands comprising adding thereto an effective amount of a hydrotropic composition comprising: at least one surface active cationic component, which is selected from a group of cholinium, guanidinium or tetramethylguanidinium, and a carboxylate anion which comprises neodecanoate.