Abstract:
The invention provides a fuel oil composition comprising a major proportion of liquid hydrocarbon middle distillate fuel oil having a sulphur concentration of at most 0.05% by weight, and a minor proportion of a dispersant additive obtained by reacting, in a molar ratio A:B in the range 4:3 to 1:10, (A) a polyalkenyl derivative of monoethylenically unsaturated C4-C10 dicarboxylic acid material in which the number average molecular weight (Mn) of the polyalkenyl chain is in the range from 850 to 1150 with (B) a polyamine of general formula H2N(CH2)m—[NH(CH2)m]n—NH2 (1) where m is in the range from 2 to 4 and n is in the range from 1 to 6; a process for the preparation of such a fuel composition, and a method of operation a compression-ignition engine with enhance injector cleanliness using such a fuel oil composition.
Abstract:
Jet fuel compositions having good low temperature operability. The jet fuel compositions comprise a jet fuel and at least one of the following additives: (i) a copolymer of ethylene and at least one unsaturated ester selected from: vinyl esters having at least 5 carbon atoms, alkyl (meth)acrylates, di-alkyl fumarates and di-alkyl maleates; (ii) a copolymer of ethylene and alkene; (iii) a copolymer of ethylene and less than 15 mole percent of vinyl acetate; (iv) a nucleator; (v) a wax; (vi) a substantially branched alkyl phenol formaldehyde condensate; (vii) a comb polymer; and (viii) a polar nitrogen compound.
Abstract:
A method of improving the flow properties of a wax-containing crude oil and natural gas liquids containing a natural pour point depressant wherein a synthetic pour point depressant is added to the crude oil or natural gas liquid when at a temperature of not more than 20° C. below the inversion temperature thereof.
Abstract:
Copolymers based on ethylene and unsaturated carboxylic esters and their use as mineral oil additives. The invention relates to copolymers of low olefins and vinyl esters, containing a) from 85 to 97 mol % of bivalent structural units of the formula 1 —CH2—CR1R2— 1 in which R1 and R2, independently of one another, are hydrogen or methyl, and b) at least 3 mol % of bivalent structural units of the formula 2 in which R3 is saturated, branched C6-C16-alkyl which has a tertiary carbon atom, wherein R3 is bonded by its tertiary carbon atom to the carboxyl function. The copolymers according to the invention are used as flow improvers for mineral oil distillates.
Abstract:
Disclosed are fuel compositions for internal combustion engines comprising as a predominant component organic distillates which exhibit suitable physical properties, and a low-sulfur fraction of an alkylated petroleum feedstock which, for example, consisted of material boiling between about 60null C. and about 345null C. More particularly, compositions of the invention comprise low-boiling, low-sulfur, blending components, advantageously obtained by a process for converting sulfur-containing organic compounds which are unwanted impurities, to higher boiling products by alkylation and removing the higher boiling products by fractional distillation. Products can be used directly as transportation fuels and/or blending components to provide fuels which are more friendly to the environment.
Abstract:
Petroleum additive formulations include a petroleum additive dissolved in a carrier fluid including at least one compound of the formula (I): (R2)pnullPhnull(CH2)mnullCOOnull(AO)nnullR1 where; R1 is C1 to C10 alkyl; AO is alkyleneoxy; n is 0 or from 1 to 100; m is 0, 1 or 2; and Ph is a phenyl group, which may be substituted with groups (R2)p; where each R2 is independently C1 to C4 alkyl or alkoxy; and p is 0, 1 or 2. Further, crude petroleum or petroleum refinery streams can be treated by adding a petroleum additive dissolved in a carrier fluid of the formula (I) to the product stream. Desirably the carrier fluid is or includes iso-propyl benzoate and/or 2-ethyl hexyl benzoate.
Abstract:
A gasoline additive concentrate composition comprises a solvent, an alkoxylated fatty amine, and a partial ester having at least one free hydroxyl group and formed by reacting at least one fatty carboxylic acid and at least one polyhydric alcohol. A fuel composition comprises gasoline and the gasoline additive concentrate composition. A method of operating a gasoline internal combustion engine comprises fueling the engine with the fuel composition and is effective in reducing fuel consumption.
Abstract:
Copolymers containing A) from 45 to 54 mol % of divalent structural units of the formula 1 in which a and b=0 or 1 and a+b=1, B) from 35 to 53 mol % of divalent structural units of the formula 2 —H2C—CHR2— (2) and C) from 1 to 25 mol % of divalent structural units derived from polyolefins, where the polyolefins can be derived from monoolefins having 3 to 5 carbon atoms, wherein a) R1 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) R2 is an alkyl radical having 10 to 50 carbon atoms, c) the alkylvinylidene content of the polyolefins on which the structural units C) are based is at least 50 mol %, and d) the number of carbon atoms in the polyolefin molecules on which the structural units C) are based is from 35 to 350.
Abstract:
This invention provides a fuel oil composition comprising a major amount of a fuel oil and a minor amount of an additive comprising at least one fuel oil-soluble alkyl or alkoxy aromatic compound wherein at last one group independently selected from alkyl and alkoxy groups of 1 to 30 carbon atoms is attached to an aromatic nucleus and at least one carboxyl group and optionally one or two hydroxyl groups are attached to the aromatic nucleus; a process for the preparation of such a fuel oil composition; and the use of such a fuel oil composition as fuel in a compression-ignition engine for controlling wear rate in the fuel injection system thereof.
Abstract:
The invention relates to the use of (A) esters of phosphoric acid and/or partial salts thereof with alkoxylated aliphatic, cycloaliphatic and/or aromatic alcohols and/or (B) fatty acid oligo-dialkanolamides as inhibitors against the formation of incrustations based on organic solids from liquid and/or gaseous hydrocarbon mixtures which are fluid and prone to form such incrustations. Preferred inhibitors having a surface-active character are capable of wetting, and especially of spreading on, solid work material surfaces also in the presence of the fluid hydrocarbon phase. They are particularly suitable as additives to crude oils and/or oil fractions susceptible of forming incrustations.