Abstract:
The invention relates to additives for improving cold-flow and lubricating properties of fuel oils, comprising A) 5-95% by weight of at least one oil-soluble amphiphile of the formula in which R1 is an alkyl, alkenyl, hydroxyalkyl or aromatic radical having 1 to 50 carbon atoms, X is NH, NR3, O or S, y is 1, 2, 3 or 4, R2 is hydrogen or an alkyl radical carrying hydroxyl groups and having 2 to 10 carbon atoms and R3 is an alkyl radical carrying nitrogen and/or hydroxyl groups and having 2 to 10 carbon atoms or C1-C20-alkyl, and B) 5 to 95% by weight of a terpolymer containing from 10 to 35 mol % of structural units derived from the vinyl ester of a carboxylic acid having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, from 1 to 15 mol % of structural units derived from the vinyl ester of a neocarboxylic acid having 8 to 15 carbon atoms, and structural units of ethylene to 100 mol %, having a melt viscosity, measured at 140° C., of from 20 to 10,000 mPas.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a continuous process for preparing additive mixtures for mineral oils and mineral oil distillates, comprising A) a cold flow improver for middle distillates, and at least one further component selected from B) and C): B) a further cold flow improver, C) an organic solvent, which comprises mixing cold flow improver and optionally solvent by means of a static mixer, the temperature of the additive mixture at the outlet of the static mixer being from 0° to 100° C.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a continuous process for preparing additive mixtures for mineral oils and mineral oil distillates, comprising A) a cold flow improver for middle distillates, and at least one further component selected from B) and C): B) a further cold flow improver, C) an organic solvent, which comprises mixing cold flow improver and optionally solvent by means of a static mixer, the temperature of the additive mixture at the outlet of the static mixer being from 0° C. to 100° C.
Abstract:
Process for the preparation of ethylene copolymers, and their use as additives to mineral oil and mineral oil distillates.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 provides a fuel oil composition F) comprising F1) 89-50% by volume of a fuel oil of mineral origin and F2) 11-50% by volume of a fuel oil of vegetable and/or animal origin, and, as a cold additive, the constituents A) at least one copolymer composed of ethylene and 8-21 mol % of at least one acrylic or vinyl ester having a C1-C18-alkyl radical and B) at least one comb polymer containing structural units composed of B1) at least one olefin as monomer 1 which bears at least one C8-C18-alkyl radical on the olefinic double bond, and B2) at least one ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid as monomer 2 which bears at least one C8-C16-alkyl radical bonded via an ester moiety, where the sum Q Q = ∑ i w 1 i · n 1 i + ∑ j w 2 j · n 2 j of the molar averages of the carbon chain length distributions in the alkyl radicals of monomer 1 on the one hand and the alkyl radicals of the ester groups of monomer 2 on the other is from 21.0 to 28.0, where w1 is the molar proportion of the individual chain lengths in the alkyl radicals of monomer 1, w2 is the molar proportion of the individual chain lengths in the alkyl radicals of the ester groups of monomer 2, n1 are the individual chain lengths in the alkyl radicals of monomer 1, n2 are the individual chain lengths in the alkyl radicals of the ester groups of monomer 2, i is the serial variable for the individual chain lengths in the alkyl radicals of monomer 1, and j is the serial variable for the individual chain lengths in the alkyl radicals in the ester groups of monomer 2.
Abstract:
The invention relates to additives for middle distillates with a maximum sulfur content of 0.05 percent by weight, containing at least one fatty acid ester of alkoxylated polyols with at least 3 OH groups (A) and at least one alkylphenol-aldehyde resin (C).
Abstract:
The invention relates to low-temperature-stabilized additives for fuel oils having a sulfur content of up 0.05% by weight, comprising fatty acid mixtures of A1) from 1 to 99% by weight of at least one saturated mono- or dicarboxylic acid having from 6 to 50 carbon atoms, A2) from 1 to 99% by weight of at least one unsaturated mono- or dicarboxylic acid having from 6 to 50 carbon atoms, and B) at least one polar nitrogen-containing compound which is effective as paraffin dispersant in middle distillates, in an amount of from 0.01 to 90% by weight, based on the total weight of A1), A2) and B), and to the use of said mixtures for improving the lubrication properties of low-sulfur middle distillates.
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:
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:
The invention relates to a process for improving the cold-flow properties of oils having a sulfur content of less than 500 ppm and a content of n-paraffins having a chain length of C.sub.18 or longer of at least 8% by weight, comprising adding an additive comprising a mixture of A) from 15 to 50% by weight of a copolymer comprising, besides from 87 to 92 mol % of structural units derived from ethylene;a) from 6.5 to 12 mol % of structural units derived from vinyl acetate andb) from 0.5 to 6 mol % of structural units derived from 4-methyl-1-pentene, with the proviso that the sum of the molar proportions of structural units a) and b) is from 8 to 14 mol %, and B) from 85 to 50% by weight of at least one further copolymer or terpolymer of ethylene and vinyl esters or acrylates which is per se a cold-flow improver.The invention furthermore relates to an additive for improving the cold-flow behavior of mineral oils and mineral-oil distillates, and to fuel oil compositions containing these additives.