Abstract:
Method for preparing a lactone reaction product comprising reacting an alkenylsuccinic acid under substantially anhydrous conditions in the presence of a protonating agent and at an elevated temperature ranging up to about 100.degree. C., and a motor fuel composition containing said lactone reaction product.
Abstract:
Improved fuel compositions with decreased tendency to form deposits in the carburetor and on "early fuel evaporation" heating elements, inlet valves and the like contain a normally liquid fuel (usually a hydrocarbon fuel), a carboxylic acid ester of lubricating viscosity, and an oil-soluble nitrogen-containing dispersant. The dispersant is characterized by the presence therein of a substantially saturated hydrocarbon-based radical having at least about 50 carbon atoms, and it is preferably a carboxylic dispersant (e.g., the reaction product of a polyisobutenyl succinic acid-producing compound with a polyethylene polyamine) or a Mannich-type dispersant (e.g., the reaction product of an alkyl phenol with formaldehyde and a polyethylene polyamine).
Abstract:
Alkenyl succinic anhydrides are prepared by first thermally reacting olefinic polymers with maleic anhydride to a point short of complete reaction of all of the maleic anhydride and then continuing the reaction in the presence of a small amount of chlorine.
Abstract:
A method of reducing the shear degradation when pumping through conduits, such as well tubing during hydraulic fracturing operations and pipelines, a liquid containing a friction loss reducing additive comprising adding to the liquid the friction loss reducing additive at least partially in chunk or granular form so that the additive is present at least partially in chunk or granular form when the mixture is passed through the pump.
Abstract:
A METHOD OF TRANSPORTING WAXY LIQUID HYDROCARBONS THROUGH CONDUITS WITHOUT CAUSING WAXY DEPOSITION OR PLUGGING OF THE CONDUITS AND IMPROVING THE FLOW CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HYDROCARBON BY ADDITION TO SAID HYDROCARBONS A SMALL AMOUNT OF A POLYSACCHARIDE DERIVATIVE HAVING SATURATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON CHAINS OF AT LEAST 15 CARBON ATOMS IN THE MOLECULE.
Abstract:
LUBRICATING AND FUEL COMPOSITIONS COMPRISING A MAJOR AMOUNT OF A LUBRICATING OIL AND A MINOR PROPORTION OF AN ESTER DERIVATIVE OF A HYDROCARBON-SUBSTITUTED SUCCINIC ACID WHEREIN THE HYDROCARBON SUBSTITUENT CONTAINS AT LEAST ABOUT FIFTY ALIPHATIC CARBON ATOMS, THE SUBSTITUENT BEING FURTHER CHARACTERIZED BY HAVING NO MORE THAN ABOUT 5% OLEFINIC LINKAGES THEREIN BASED ON THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CARBON-TO-CARBON COVALENT LINKAGES IN THE SUBSTITUENT. THE ESTERS INCLUDE THE ACIDIC ESTERS, DIESTERS, MIXED ESTER-METAL SALTS, AND MIXTURES OF THESE WHEREIN THE ESTER MOIETY IS DERIVED FROM MONOHYDRIC AND POLYHYDRIC ALCOHOLS, PHENOLS, NAPTHTHOLS, AND THE LIKE.
Abstract:
Described herein are associative polymers capable of controlling a physical and/or chemical property of non-polar compositions that can be used when the non-polar composition is in a flow, and related compositions, methods and systems. Associative polymers herein described have a non-polar backbone with a longest span having a molecular weight that remains substantially unchanged under the flow conditions and functional groups presented at ends of the non-polar backbone, with a number of the functional groups presented at the ends of the non-polar backbone formed by associative functional groups capable of undergoing an associative interaction with another associative functional group with an association constant (k) such that the strength of each associative interaction is less than the strength of a covalent bond between atoms and in particular less than the strength of a covalent bond between backbone atoms.