Abstract:
ANTI-STATIC FUEL COMPOSITION COMPRISING A MIXTURE OF HYDROCARBONS IN THE GASOLINE, KEROSENE AND OR FURNACE OIL BOILING RANGES AND A MINRO AMOUNT OF A REACTION PRODUCT OF AN ALIPHATIC MONOAMINE HAVING THE FORMULA RHN2 IN WHICH R IS AN ALIPHATIC RADICAL HAVING FROM 8 TO 20 CARBON ATOMS AND EITHER A FLUORINATED POLYSTYRENE HAVING THE EMPIRICAL FORMULA: (C16H3F25)X IN WHICH X IS AN AVERAGE INTEGER BETWEEN 3 TO 5, OR A FLUORINATED POLYPROPYLENE HAVING THE EMPIRICAL FORMULA: (C3HF5)X IN WHICH X HAS A VALUE FROM 20 TO 40, AND A METHOD FOR PREPARING THE ABOVE-NOTED ALIPHATIC MONOAMINE DERIVATIVES.
Abstract:
A low pour point fuel oil blend is prepared from a major amount of a high pour point, low sulfur, waxy, residual fuel and a minor amount of low-waxy, low pour, residual fuel oil by adding thereto from 0.01 to 0.5 percent by weight of an oil soluble ethylenevinyl fatty acid ester copolymer in which the fatty acid component of the ester has a carbon content of from about 2 to about 6; the copolymer having a molecular weight between about 20,000 and 31,000, a melt index of about 5 to about 28 and a vinyl fatty acid ester content of from about 24 to about 34 percent. The copolymer may be added either in a water-glycol emulsion or in a hydrocarbon to one of the blend components which has been heated to between about 200* to 400*F.