Abstract:
AN OVERBASED JET FUEL CONTAINING DISPERSED ALKALINE EARTH METAL CARBONATE, E.G., CALCIUM CARBONATE, AND AN ALKALINE EARTH OR ALKALI METAL ALKYL PHEONOL COMPLEX, E.G., CALCIUM OCTYL PHENOL COMPLEX, IS COMBINED WITH AN OIL SOLUBLE HYDROGENATION AND DESULFURIZATION CATALYST, E.G., NICKEL STEARATE, TO PROVIDE A CATALYST FOR A HIGH TEMPERATURE, ELEVATD PRESSURE STEAM TREATMET OF A HEAVY CRUDE OIL OR OIL RESIDUE TO GENERATE IN SITU HYDROGEN THUS REDUCING THE SPECIFIC GRAVITY AND THE SULFUR CONTENT OF THE CRUDE AND MINIMIZING COKE FORMATION.
Abstract:
A STABLE CATIONIC RUBBER-ASPHALT EMULSION IS MADE BY BLENDING A RUBBERY BLOCK COPOLYMER OF AT LEAST ONE CONJUGATED DIENE AND AT LEAST ONE MONOVINYL OR DIVINYL AROMATIC COMPOUND WITH ASPHALT, WATER AND AN EMULSIFYING AMOUNT OF A CATIONIC EMULSIFYING AGENT.
Abstract:
A method and catalyst for the upgrading of hydrocarbons which employs a multiple component catalyst system to generate hydrogen in situ and to thereby produce, within the hydrocarbons, materials of low molecular weight, and of reduced carbon residue and sulfur content.
Abstract:
A NOVEL SURFACTANT COMPOSITION IS PRODUCED BY REACTING ASPHALTENES WITH AN ANHYDRIDE OR HALIDE OF ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING DICARBOXYLIC ACIDS: MALEIC ACID, SUCCINIC ACID AND GLUTARIC ACID, WITH THE REACTION PRODUCT THEN BEING SEPARATED AND NEUTRALIZED WITH A WATER-SOLUBLE OXIDE OR HYDROXIDE OF A GROUP II-A METAL. THE SURFACTANT COMPOSITION FORMED IS USEFUL IN THE PREPARATION OF STABLE WATER-IN-OIL EMULSIONS AND ALSO FOR DISPERSING SOLID PARTICLES IN AN OILY MEDIUM.