Abstract:
The invention provides dispersants and dispersant viscosity index improvers which include polymers of conjugated dienes which have been hydrogenated and functionalized. The dispersant substances include compositions including a copolymer of two different conjugated dienes, a copolymer of a p-alkylstyrene and a conjugated diene, or a homopolymer of a conjugated diene. The polymers are selectively hydrogenated to produce polymers which have highly controlled amounts of unsaturation, permitting highly selective functionalization. Also provided are lubricant fluids, such as mineral and synthetic oils, which have been modified in their dispersancy and/or viscometric properties by means of the dispersant substances of the invention. Also provided are methods of modifying the dispersancy and/or viscometric properties of lubricating fluids such as mineral and synthetic lubricating oils. The dispersant substances may also include a carrier fluid to provide dispersant concentrates.
Abstract:
Epoxidized linear block, random, star-branched block or star-branched random polymers are disclosed which prior to epoxidation contain at least one conjugated diene having at least five carbon atoms of the formula (1) ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 -R.sup.6 are each hydrogen or a hydrocarbyl group, provided that at least one of R.sup.1 -R.sup.6 is a hydrocarbyl group and the structure of the residual double bond in the polymerized diene of formula (1) has the formula (2) ##STR2## wherein R.sup.I, R.sup.II, R.sup.III and R.sup.IV are each hydrogen or a hydrocarbyl group, provided that either both R.sup.I and R.sup.II are hydrocarbyl groups or both R.sup.III and R.sup.IV are hydrocarbyl groups; and the remainder of the conjugated diene different from the diene of formula (1), has at least four carbon atoms of the formula (3) ##STR3## wherein R.sup.7 -R.sup.12 are each hydrogen or a hydrocarbyl group, provided that the structure of the residual double bond in the polymerized diene of formula (3) has the formula (4) ##STR4## wherein R.sup.a, R.sup.b, R.sup.c and R.sup.d are each hydrogen or a hydrocarbyl group, provided that one of R.sup.a or R.sup.b is hydrogen, one of R.sup.c and R.sup.d is hydrogen.
Abstract:
The invention provides dispersants and dispersant viscosity index improvers which include polymers of conjugated dienes which have been hydrogenated and functionalized. The dispersant substances include compositions including a copolymer of two different conjugated dienes, a copolymer of a p-alkylstyrene and a conjugated diene, or a homopolymer of a conjugated diene. The polymers are selectively hydrogenated to produce polymers which have highly controlled amounts of unsaturation, permitting highly selective functionalization. Also provided are lubricant fluids, such as mineral and synthetic oils, which have been modified in their dispersancy and/or viscometric properties by means of the dispersant substances of the invention. Also provided are methods of modifying the dispersancy and/or viscometric properties of lubricating fluids such as mineral and synthetic lubricating oils. The dispersant substances may also include a carrier fluid to provide dispersant concentrates.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a linear block copolymer comprising at least one triblock I-B-I, wherein I is a block of at least one polymerized conjugated diene of at least five (5) carbon atoms, such as isoprene, and B is a block of a polymer of at least one conjugated diene, different from that used to polymerize the block I, of at least four (4) carbon atoms, such as 1,3-butadiene. The B block is selectively hydrogenated, while each of the I blocks is unhydrogenated and therefore retains a sufficient amount of its original unsaturation to vulcanize the copolymer. There is also disclosed an alternative linear block copolymer containing at least one triblock of the first polymer block made from a minor proportion of at least one aryl-substituted olefin, such as styrene, and a major proportion of at least one conjugated diene used to polymerize the block I, the second middle polymer block of at least one diene used to polymerize the block B, and the third polymer block which is the same as the first polymer block. There are also disclosed random linear and star-branched block and random copolymers made from the same monomers as the linear block copolymers.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to an oil-soluble lubricating oil additive comprising at least one adduct of (A) a polyolefin of 700 to 5,000 number average molecular weight substituted with carboxylic acid producing moieties (preferably acid or anhydride moieties), and (B) a monoepoxy thiol.
Abstract:
Pour point depressants for hydrocarbonaceous fuels and oils are formed from a mixture of (1) the reaction product of an epoxidized alpha-olefin with a nitrogen-containing compound selected from ammonia, an amine, a polyamine or a hydroxyamine, and (2) an ethylene-olefin copolymer having a molecular weight in the range 1000 to 100,000.
Abstract:
Additive combinations of (A) alkyl aromatics, e.g., the condensation product of chlorinated wax and naphthalene, with: (B) ethylene-containing polymers, e.g., copolymers of about 4 to 30 molar proportions of ethylene copolymerized with an unsaturated ester, and/or (C) N-aliphatic hydrocarbyl succinamic acids and/or their amine salts, are cold flow improvers for distillate petroleum fuels.
Abstract:
A low pour point gas turbine fuel is prepared from a waxy crude by blending a 650*-750*F distillate fraction from a crude oil with a minor amount of a 350*-650*F fraction of a middle distillate and from 0.05 to 0.5% by weight of an oil soluble ethylene-vinyl fatty acid ester copolymer in which the fatty acid component of the ester has a carbon content of from about 2 to about 6; the copolymer having a molecular weight between about 17,000 and 29,000, and a vinyl fatty acid ester content of from about 27 to about 42. The melt index of the copolymer ranges from 7 to 465.
Abstract:
Diesel fuel compositions are provided that have unexpectedly beneficial cold flow properties. Methods for forming such diesel fuel compositions are also provided. The improved cold flow properties are achieved in part based on dewaxing of a distillate fraction of the composition. The improved cold flow properties are achieved further in part based on inclusion of a cold flow additive and fatty acid alkyl ester in the composition, such as fatty acid methyl ester.