Abstract:
This invention is a catalytic process for the hydroformylation of olefinic, sulfur-containing thermally cracked petroleum streams to produce aldehydes and/or alcohols The catalysts are homogeneous transition metal carbonyl complexes. Especially preferred catalysts for low and medium pressure hydroformylation are cobalt and rhodium carbonyl hydride complexes in which some of the carbonyl ligands have been replaced by trivalent phosphorus lignads. In a preferred high pressure hydroformylation, the sulfur-containing gas oil distillate feed is produced from vacuum residue by high temperature thermal cracking. Such a feed contains more than 20% olefins with 1-n-olefins as the single major types. These olefin components are hydroformylated in the presence of a cobalt carbonyl complex to produce a novel type of semilinear aldehyde or alcohol product containing an average of less than one alkyl branch per molecule
Abstract:
Liquid hydrocarbons containing minor amounts of surface active, higher alkyl trimethyl ammonium salts are surprisingly resistant to forming water in oil emulsions and microbiological degradation. Detergent range alkyl trimethyl ammonium chlorides of limited hydrocarbon solubility are especially useful as antihaze and/or antimicrobial agents for heating oils. The water solubility of the new oil additives unexpectedly facilitates their bactericidal effectiveness. Furthermore, antihaze activity of these additives is uniquely unaffected by polar oligomeric additives such as cold flow improvers and detergents also present in the oil products.
Abstract:
A catalytic process for the hydroformylation of olefinic, sulfur containing thermally cracked petroleum streams to produce aldehydes and/or alcohol is disclosed. The catalysts are homogeneous transition metal carbonyl complexes. Especially preferred catalysts for low and medium pressure hydroformylation are cobalt and rhodium carbonyl hydride complexes in which some of the carbonyl ligands have been replaced by trivalent phosphorus ligands. In a preferred high pressure hydroformylation. the sulfur-containing naphtha and gas oil distillate feeds are produced from vacuum residua by high temperature thermal cracking. Such feeds contain more than 20% olefins with 1-n-olefins as the single major types. These olefin components are hydroformylation in the presence of a cobalt carbonyl complex to product a novel type of semilinear aldehyde and/or alcohol product containing an average of less than one alkyl branch per molecule. The alcohols are converted to dialkyl phthalates and other esters having a unique balance of plasticizer properties. They are also useful for producing novel surfactants, particularly ethoxylated derivatives. For the preparation of produces containing minimal concentrations of sulfur compounds, narrow distillate fractions of thermally cracked residua are preferred. In the C6 to C11 carbon range, single carbon fractions of sharply reduced aromatic hydrocarbon and thiophenic sulfur content can be obtained. These fractions of increased linear olefin content can be advantageously used as hydroformylation feeds in the derivation of low sulfur containing alcohols and related products of increased linearity.