Abstract:
The lubricity of low sulphur fuels is enhanced by incorporation of a lubricity enhancing additive in combination with an ethylene-unsaturated ester copolymer.
Abstract:
Copolymers consisting of 95 to 50 weight percent of ethylene and 5 to 50 weight percent of methoxyacetic acid vinyl ester and having a molecular mass from 500 to 10,000 g.times.mole .sup.-1. Methods for preparation and use are also disclosed. The copolymers are used as flow improvers for mineral oil distillates, in particular mineral oil middle distillates.
Abstract:
Crude oils and residual fuel oils having improved pour point and flow properties are obtained by incorporating therein a small amount of a new terpolymer prepared from ethylene, a vinyl ester, and a dialkylvinyl carbinol. The terpolymer has a number average molecular weight of about 500-10,000 and suitably contains 45-80 wt. % ethylene, 10-25 wt. % vinyl ester of a fatty acid having up to about eight carbon atoms and 10-30 wt. % dialkylvinyl carbinol wherein the alkyl groups have up to about six carbon atoms.
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:
Copolymers of vinyl ester and an ester of a dialkyl unsaturated dicarboxylic acid prepared by partial transesterification of a short chain alcohol ester of said dicarboxylic acid with a C20 to C30 alcohol are flow improvers in residual and crude oils.
Abstract:
An improved process for the transportation of waxy crude oils through pipelines, in particular North African crudes, which comprises introducing into the pipeline a low-pour point, lowsulfur crude oil blend comprising about 70 to about 90 percent by volume of a high-pour point, low-sulfur, waxy crude, and about 30 to about 10 percent by volume of a low-wax, low-pour crude, together with an effective pour depressant amount of an oilsoluble ethylene-vinyl fatty acid ester copolymer. The pipeline flow characteristics of the blend of the crudes are distinctly superior to the high-pour point, low-sulfur, waxy crude forming the major portion of the blend or the high-pour point, waxy crude with the same pour point depressant. In another aspect, this invention relates to the composition comprising the blended crudes together with the oil-soluble copolymer and to a process for preparing such compositions.
Abstract:
A method of producing copolymers of ethylene and 28 to 60 weight percent vinyl acetate of 2,000 to 6,000 mol weight for use as pour depressants by charging solvent, vinyl acetate and ethylene to a reactor until the concentration of vinyl acetate in said solvent is 6 to 10 weight percent and the pressure is 700 to 2000 p.s.i., heating to 280* to 340* F. and then adding promoter to start the polymerization and thereafter adding additional promoter and vinyl acetate to maintain the concentration of vinyl acetate in the 6 to 10 weight percent range during the course of the reaction.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an aqueous emulsion comprising: a) from 50% to 60% of an organic phase dispersed in an aqueous phase, said organic phase containing a mixture including from 24% to 30%, calculated with respect to the final emulsion, of ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers and/or polyalkyl(meth)acrylates, indicated in the present description as polymeric component, and a high-boiling organic solvent, or a mixture of said solvents; b) a primary emulsifier at a concentration higher or equal to 0.1% and lower than or equal to 3% by weight, calculated with respect to the final emulsion; c) from 37% to 47% of an aqueous phase; wherein the ratio between said polymer component and said organic solvent in the final aqueous emulsion is at least 1/1 and where the organic solvent and any polymer of the polymeric component have a Hildebrand solubility parameter δ such that, the difference (δsolvent_δpolymer) is lower than 2 in absolute value for any polymer of the polymeric component.