Abstract:
Ethylene copolymers with octene and/or ethylene terpolymers with alpha-olefins from 3 to 12 carbon atoms, optionally in the presence of other comonomers containing more than one unsaturation, usable as additives to increase the gas oil properties at low temperatures, obtainable by polymerization of the monomers in the presence of catalysts comprising: a bis-cyclopentadienyl derivative having the general formula: (Cp1Cp2)nullMnull(L2L3) containing groups with oxygen bound to the transition metal, wherein M is a metal from the IIIb group to the Vb group or of the lanthanide series of the Element Periodic Table; Cp1 and CP2, equal to or different from each other, represent cyclopentadienyls bound to M with delocalized null bonds.
Abstract:
Ethylene copolymers with alpha-olefins utilizable as additives to increase the properties of middle distillates at low temperatures, obtainable by polymerization in the presence of catalysts comprising the reaction product between: 1) a bis-cyclopentadienyl derivative having the general formula: (Cp1Cp2)nullMnull(L2L3) containing groups with oxygen bound to the transition metal, wherein M is a metal from the IIIb group to the IIb group or of the lanthanides series of the periodic table of the elements; 2) a co-catalyst chosen from alumoxanes or boranes.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed towards a lubricating oil comprising a random copolymer of an &agr;-olefin/aromatic vinyl compound, wherein the copolymer has a viscosity falling within a specific range and comprises ethylene, an aromatic vinyl compound, and optionally an &agr;-olefin. The lubricating oil possesses excellent viscosity properties, thermal stability, oxidation stability, abrasion resistance, and compatibility with lubricating oil additives. The random copolymer having a different viscosity range is useful as a viscosity index improver and a compatibilizing agent for a lubricating oil. The invention also provides a lubricating oil composition comprising a base oil and the viscosity index improver or the compatibilizing agent. The invention further provides a fuel oil composition comprising a fuel oil fluidity improver based on the above random copolymer having a different viscosity range and a middle fraction fuel oil having a boiling point of 150 to 400° C. The fuel oil composition prevents an increase in viscosity of the middle fraction fuel oil, lowers the clogging point and the flow point in a low-temperature filter, and inhibits the abrasion of a fuel jet nozzle.
Abstract:
A composition including polyalphaolefins that function as drag reducing agents and a process for the preparation of polyalphaolefins that function as drag reducing agents are disclosed. The process includes contacting alpha olefin monomers with a catalyst system, which includes a catalyst and an activator (co-catalyst) in a reactant mixture. The catalyst is a transition metal catalyst, preferably titanium trichloride, and the co-catalyst may include an alkylaluminoxane, alone or in combination, with a dialkylaluminum halide or a halohydrocarbon. The polymerization of the alpha olefin monomers produces a non-crystalline, ultra-high molecular weight polyalphaolefin having an inherent viscosity of at least 10 dL/g. The addition of the alkylaluminoxane during the polymerization process provides for a non-crystalline, ultra-high molecular weight polyalphaolefin and a more uniform molecular weight distribution of the resulting polyalphaolefin, thereby creating a drag reducing agent superior to known drag reducing agents. A process for forming a drag reducing agent comprising a non-crystalline, ultra-high molecular weight polyalphaolefin having an inherent viscosity of about at least 10 dL/g and a process for reducing drag in a conduit are also disclosed.
Abstract:
The lubricity of low sulphur fuels is enhanced by incorporation of a lubricity enhancing additive in combination with a polyoxyalkylene compound.
Abstract:
Distillate fuel is treated with additives whose structure match the crystal planes of the wax which crystallizes from the fuel to produce crystals below 4000 nanometres in size, suitable additive include novel sulpho-carboxylic materials particularly their esters and amine derivatives such as the amine salts and/or amides of ortho-sulpho benzoic acid.
Abstract:
Homo- or co-polymers derived from one or more alpha-olefins having a number average molecular weight of up to 15,000 and an isotacticity of 75% or greater, and their use as Cold Flow Improvers in crude, fuel or lubricating oil.
Abstract:
The invention is directed to a method of enhancing the low temperature flow properties of fuels comprising adding to the fuel a heated additive concentrate comprising: (A) at least one nitrogen-containing derivative of carboxylic acid, (B) an organic acid, and (C) at least one other flow improver, wherein the concentrate is heated to at least about 35.degree. C.
Abstract:
Polymerization process to obtain elastomeric copolymers or terpolymers based on ethylene for cold flow improver (CFI) having a viscosimetric average molecular weight ranging between 600 and 16,000. a) The process includes polymerizing monomers in suspension in the presence of an alpha-olefin liquid under reaction conditions, in the presence of an amount of solvent from about 5 to 30% by volume of the reactor volume in the presence of a polymerization catalyst able to give the X.sub.2 and/or X.sub.4 parameters, lower less than or equal to 0.02, X.sub.2 and X.sub.4 representing the fraction of uninterrupted methylenic sequences of 2 and 4 methylenic groups between two successive methyl or methylene groups respectively in the polymeric chain, as compared with the uninterrupted total sequences of methylene groups determined by .sup.13 C-NMR; b) Conveying the reaction slurry into a flash pipe for the evaporation of the unreacted monomers and of minimum quantities of solvent; c) The polymeric part with the quantity of solvent of the same type or different as above, so as to obtain the desired polymer concentrations, and deactivation of the catalyst by bubbling of wet air stream.