Abstract:
Crude oils, lubricating oils or fuel oils have their flow point improved by adding to the crude oil, lubricating oil or fuel oil a minor proportion by weight of a polymer containing the repeating units: ##STR1## where x is an integer and y is 0 or an integer and wherein in the total polymer x+y is at least two.
Abstract:
Compositions comprising two or more re-esterified ethylene-unsaturated ester copolymers, for example ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers, improve the low temperature properties of fuel oils.
Abstract:
Terpolymers obtained by polymerizing a mixture of ethylene, vinyl acetate, and isobutyl vinyl ether, a process for their preparation, and methods of their use as additives for mineral oil distillates.
Abstract:
The reaction cycle time for the copolymerization of unsaturated esters such as alkyl fumarates and vinyl acetate, and for the polymerization of methacrylates and acrylates may be dramatically reduced by carrying out the polymerization at elevated temperatures and pressures. An additional feature is the addition of initiator during polymerization which leads to improved products especially for lubricating oil pour depressants and fuel and crude oil flow improvers.
Abstract:
As a flow improver in a crude oil or a liquid hydrocarbon fuel are used polymers containing more than one amide group, the amide being an amide of a secondary amine, and either the amide group or an ester group of the polymer containing a hydrogen- and carbon-containing group of at least 10 carbon atoms, provided that if the polymer is derived from the polymerization of an aliphatic olefin and maleic anhydride, the polymer must have both an amide group and an ester group each of which contains a hydrogen- and carbon-containing group of at least 10 carbon atoms, for example, a diamide of a copolymer of an alkyl fumarate, vinyl acetate and maleic anhydride.
Abstract:
The low temperature properties of a distillate petroleum fuel oil boiling in the range 120.degree. C. to 500.degree. C. and having a final boiling point above 370.degree. C., are improved particularly the lowering of the cloud point by the addition of a polymer or copolymer having at least 25 wt. % of n-alkyl groups of average number of carbon atoms from 14 to 18 with no more than 10 wt. % containing less than 14 carbon atoms and no more than 10 wt. % containing more than 14 carbon atoms.
Abstract:
The low temperature properties of a distillate petroleum fuel oil boiling in the range 120.degree. C. to 500.degree. C., are improved particularly the lowering of the cloud point by the addition of a polymer or copolymer of a n-alkyl vinyl or fumarate ester having at least 25 wt. % of n-alkyl groups of average number of carbon atoms from 14 to 18 with no more than 10 wt. % containing less than 14 carbon atoms and no more than 10 wt. % containing more than 14 carbon atoms.
Abstract:
Improved rate of dissolution in liquid hydrocarbon fuels, of specified tert-butylstyrene copolymers capable of imparting anti-misting characteristics to the fuel, is obtained when the copolymer, following its production by aqueous emulsion polymerization of the monomers, is isolated from the resulting latex by a process of flocculation, separation, washing and drying at moderate temperatures. The copolymer thus isolated is advantageously incorporated in the liquid fuel in the form of a slurry with a hydroxylic liquid and an amine.
Abstract:
Modified liquid hydrocarbon fuel, in particular aviation kerosene, having a reduced tendency to undergo mist formation when subjected to shock, contains from 0.05% to 2% of its weight of polymer microgel particles of defined characteristics, the microgel polymer preferably being an addition copolymer of one or more main monomers with a minor proportion, e.g. 0.0005% to 0.1% of the total monomers, of one or more monomers which are multifunctional with respect to the polymerization reaction.
Abstract:
A process is described for the production of copolymers derived predominantly from a monomer, e.g. tert-butylstyrene, having a very low solubility in water, by low temperature emulsion polymerization in a medium consisting substantially of water alone, under specified reaction conditions; high levels of conversion of monomer are achieved. The copolymer products are useful as additives to liquid hydrocarbon fuels for the purpose of reducing the tendency of the fuels to disseminate into mists under conditions of shock.