Abstract:
A fuel additive, which is adapted for mixing with a fuel such as gasoline or diesel, includes compositions of nonyl phenol having a ratio of 4-16% by weight, aliphatic amide having a ratio of 2-14% by weight, alkaline metallic petroleum sulfonate having a ratio of 1-10% by weight, propolis having a ratio of 10-90% by weight, a stabilizer having a ratio of 1-10% by weight, and combustion booster having a ratio 1-30% by weight.
Abstract:
Anti-knock gasoline fuel compositions are provided including anti-knock additives and mixtures thereof. The octane quality of fuel for an internal combustion engine improved with the anti-knock additives.
Abstract:
Tropospheric volume elements enriched with vital elements and/or protective substances as well as procedures for their production and application. The term “vital elements” applies to all matter supporting the development of life within the earth's biosphere and the term “protective substances” means all those substances which contribute directly or indirectly to the prevention of harmful effects on the earth's biosphere and in particular on man. Tropospheric volume elements in the form of clouds which contain contaminants and which can escape from industrial facilities due to damage or malfunction are enriched with protective substances which prevent the organism from taking in radioactive elements and minimize the extent of the area affected by the clouds and possess additional warning and identification properties.
Abstract:
An additive and a method for reducing carbon and fly ash results from the combustion of a mixture of coal and a manganese-containing compound. The manganese compound may be mixed with coal either before or in a combustion chamber. The manganese compound may be an inorganic or organometallic compound. The organometallic compound may include methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl.
Abstract:
A method for imparting anti-static characteristics to fuel is provided, the method comprising supplying a hydrocarbon fuel and mixing the fuel with an ion, contained in an inorganic compound, to reduce the electrical resistance of the fuel.
Abstract:
A method improves the operation of a diesel engine through the use of a fuel additive, a diesel particulate trap and a NO.sub.x -reducing catalyst. The operation of the NO.sub.x -reducing catalyst is enhanced by the introduction of urea or like compound upstream of the catalyst at temperatures effective for non-catalytic NO.sub.x reduction and the generation of ammonia. The additive comprises fuel-soluble compositions of platinum group metal in effective amounts to lower the emissions of unburned hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide from the trap. The catalytic activity provided to the exhaust system by the fuel additive is selective and preferably reduces the oxidation of SO.sub.2 to SO.sub.3. The platinum group metal compositions are preferably added in amounts effective to provide concentrations of the metal in the fuel of less than 1 part per million (ppm). Lithium and/or sodium compositions can be used in amounts effective to reduce the trap regeneration temperature, e.g. concentrations to provide about 1 to 100 ppm lithium metal, and/or 1 to 30 ppm sodium metal.
Abstract:
A burner is operated by continuously feeding into its combustion zone while combustion is occurring therein, (a) a middle distillate burner fuel with which has been blended in any sequence or combination a minor combustion improving amount of fuel-soluble manganese polycarbonyl compound(s), and (b) a total amount of air above 100% of the stoichiometric amount required for complete combustion of all fuel being introduced into said zone but which is below 105% of such stoichiometric amount. Preferably at least alkali or alkaline earth metal-containing detergent and fuel-soluble dispersant have also been blended into the fuel being used. The efficiency of operation of blue and yellow burners is thereby improved, and emissions such as carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide can be reduced as compared to operation of the same burner on the same unadditized base fuel.
Abstract:
A method and a composition for providing an improved combustion containing hydrocarbon compounds in order to reduce the content of injurious substances in the exhaust gases/discharges, at which a liquid composition containing 10-80% by volume of a peroxide or peroxo compound is added to the air of combustion or the fuel-air mixture respectively.
Abstract:
A process for stabilizing solutions of metal carbonyls in organic solvents, preferably in hydrocarbons, in which one or more aluminum-containing, organic compounds are dissolved in the solutions as stabilizers. The aluminum in such compounds is directly bonded to carbon and/or oxygen atoms. More specifically, the aluminum containing organic compounds are reaction products between aluminum alkoxides and one or more compounds having the formula:
WHEREIN R1 represents hydrogen, alkyl having up to 8 carbon atoms, aryl or aralkyl having up to 10 carbon atoms, alkoxy having up to 8 carbon atoms, aryloxy or aralkoxy having up to 10 carbon atoms, or a group having the formula:
AND THE GROUPS R2, R3, R4 and R5 each, and independently of each other, represent hydrogen, alkyl having up to 8 carbon atoms, or aryl or aralkyl having up to 10 carbon atoms. The aluminumcontaining organic compounds can be added to the solutions of metal carbonyls in an amount corresponding to 1 part by weight of aluminum to 50 to 200 parts by weight of the metal in the metal carbonyl.