Abstract:
Disclosed is a fuel oil composition comprising a middle distillate having a sulfur content of up to 0.05% by weight and reaction products of A) mono- or dicarboxylic acids of 6 to 50 carbon atoms and B) primary, secondary or tertiary amines of the formula NR1R2R3 where R1 is branched alkyl of 3 to 18 carbon atoms and R2 and R3 are independently hydrogen, R1 or alkyl of 1-12 carbon atoms.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a process for the preparation of terpolymers of ethylene and at least 2 further olefinically unsaturated compounds by polymerization in a tubular reactor fitted with at least one side branch, wherein the fresh monomer components, which are introduced into the tubular reactor via the reactor inlet (the primary stream) or via the side branch or side branches (secondary stream or secondary streams), in each of the streams contain ethylene and at most one further olefinically unsaturated compound.
Abstract:
The invention relates to additives for improving the cold flow properties of middle distillates, containing from 10 to 95% by weight of copolymers A), from 5 to 90% by weight of copolymers B) and, if required, from 0 to 70% by weight of copolymers C), which correspond to the following formulae: A) copolymers of lower olefins and vinyl esters, B) copolymers comprising B1) from 40 to 60 mol % of bivalent structural units of the formula where X is O or N—R4 and in which a and b are 0 or 1 and a +b=1, and B2) from 60 to 40 mol % of bivalent structural units of the formula —H2C—CR11R5— B2 and, if required, B3) from 0 to 20 mol % of bivalent structural units which are derived from polyolefins, the polyolefins being derivable from monoolefins having 3 to 5 carbon atoms, and in which a) R4 is an alkyl or alkenyl radical having 10 to 40 carbon atoms or an alkoxyalkyl radical having 1 to 100 alkoxy units and 1 to 30 carbon atoms in the alkyl radical, and b) R5 is a radical of the formula OCOR12 or COOR12, in which R12 is C1-to C3-alkyl, and c) the number of carbon atoms of the polyolefin molecules on which the structural units B3) are based is from 35 to 350, and d) R11 is hydrogen or methyl, and, if required, C) a further copolymer differing from A) and B) and comprising ethylene and one or more vinyl esters or acrylates, which by itself is effective as a cold flow improver for middle distillates.
Abstract:
The invention relates to additives for improving lubricating properties of fuel oils, comprising A) 10-95% by weight of at least one oil-soluble amphiphile of the formulae 1 and/or 2 R1—X—R2 (2) B) 5-90% by weight of at least one copolymer which contains B1) from 5 to 80 mol % of structural units which are derived from olefinically unsaturated compounds, and B2) from 20 to 95 mol % of structural units which are derived from olefinically unsaturated compounds, B3) from 0 to 40 mol % of further structural units selected from the group consisting of (meth)acrylic acid, (meth)acrylates, vinyl esters, vinyl ethers and alkenes, and the copolymer has an average molar mass Mw of from 500 to 100,000 g/mol and an OH number of from 10 to 350 mg KOH/g.
Abstract:
The invention relates to novel copolymers of ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid esters with polyoxyalkylene ethers of lower, unsaturated alcohols, their preparation, their use as flow-improving agents for paraffin-containing oils, and oils which contain such copolymers. The invention also relates to the use of known copolymers of ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid esters with polyoxyalkylene ethers of allyl and/or methallyl alcohol as flow-improving agents for paraffin-containing oils.
Abstract:
The invention relates to reaction products of polyetheramines with polymers containing dicarboxylic anhydride groups, which contain 20-80, preferably 40-60, mol % of bivalent structural units A and/or C and, if required, B ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, independently of one another, are hydrogen or methyl, a and b are equal to zero or one and a+b is equal to one, Y is X or NRR.sup.3, X is --OH, --O--C.sub.1-30 -alkyl, NR.sup.3 R.sup.4 or --O.sup..crclbar. N.sup..sym. R.sup.3 R.sup.4, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, independently of one another, are hydrogen, C.sub.6 -C.sub.40 -alkyl or R, R is ##STR2## with the proviso that at least 1 mol % of the anhydride groups bonded to the polymer have reacted with a polyetheramine, Z is C.sub.2 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, n is a number from 1 to 1000, R.sup.5 is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.30 -alkyl, C.sub.5 -C.sub.12 -cycloalkyl or C.sub.6 -C.sub.30 -aryl and R.sup.6 is hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, preferably methyl, and 80-20 mol %, preferably 60-40 mol % of bivalent structural units D ##STR3## in which R.sup.7 is hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl and R.sup.8 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.60 -alkyl or C.sub.6 -C.sub.18 -aryl.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a continuous method for producing esters, in which at least one polyol ester of formula (I) (R1—COO)mR2 (I), where R1 represents hydrogen or an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group containing 1 to 50 carbon atoms, R2 represents an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group containing 2 to 10 carbon atoms, and m represents a number from 2 to 10 and is smaller than or equal to the number of carbon atoms in R2, is reacted with at least one monohydric alcohol of formula (II) R3—OH (II), where R3 represents an optionally substituted hydrocarbon group containing 1 to 30 C atoms, using microwave radiation in a reaction tube, the longitudinal axis of which extends in the direction of propagation of the microwaves of a single-mode microwave applicator, so as to obtain at least one ester of formula (III) R1—COO—R3 (III), where R1 and R3 have the meanings indicated above.
Abstract:
The invention provides additive mixtures comprising A) at least one terpolymer of ethylene, propene and at least one ethylenically unsaturated ester, which i) contains from 6.0 to 12.0 mol % of structural units derived from at least one ethylenically unsaturated ester having a C1- to C3-alkyl radical, ii) contains from 0.5 to 4.0 methyl groups derived from propene per 100 aliphatic carbon atoms, iii) has fewer than 8.0 methyl groups stemming from chain ends per 100 CH2 groups, and B) from 0.5 to 20 parts by weight, based on A), of at least one further component which is effective as a cold additive for mineral oils and is selected from B1) copolymers of ethylene and ethylenically unsaturated compounds whose content of ethylenically unsaturated compounds is at least 2 mol % higher than the content of ethylenically unsaturated esters in the terpolymer defined under A), B2) comb polymers, and B3) mixtures of B1) and B2), and also their use as a cold additive for middle distillates.
Abstract:
The invention relates to polymers carrying ester/hydroxyl groups, containing repetitive structural units of formulae (I) and (II) in a block-wise, alternating or statistical sequence, wherein D represents a direct bond between the polymer backbone and the hydroxyl group, a C1- to C6-alkene group, a C5- to C12-arylene group, an oxyalkene group of formula —O—R2—, an ester group of formula —C(O)—O—R2— or an amide group of formula —C(O)—N(R3)R2—, E represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 50 C-atoms, R2 represents a C2- to C10-alkene group, R3 represents hydrogen or a C1- to C10-alkyl group, which can carry substituents, k represents a number between 1 and 1000, n represents a number from 0 to 4999, m represents a number from 1 to 5000, and n+m represents a number between 10 to 5000, under the proviso that a) the molar portion of the structural units (I); on the polymer is between 0 and 99.9 mol-%, and b) the molar portion of the structural units (II) on the polymer is between 0.1 and 100 mol-% of the repetitive units. The invention also relates to a method for the production of said polymers using microwaves.
Abstract:
The subject of the invention is a method for determining the H2S content arising during the warm storage of sulfur-containing crude and residual oils and mineral distillates containing sulfur-containing crude and/or residual oils, in which a sample of the sulfur-containing mineral oil is dissolved in a solvent or solvent mixture that boils at more than 200° C. and a carrier gas is caused to flow through the solution of the sulfur-containing mineral oil at temperatures above 80° C., and the quantity of hydrogen sulfide carried out with the carrier gas is analyzed quantitatively.