Patents Assigned to AAE Technologies International plc
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Publication number: 20080110081Abstract: There is described a fuel composition incorporating levulinic acid or a functional derivative thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2007Publication date: May 15, 2008Applicant: AAE Technologies International plcInventors: Alan Rae, William Hodgson
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Patent number: 7351268Abstract: There is described a fuel composition incorporating levulinic acid or a functional derivative thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2002Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: AAE Technologies International PLCInventors: Alan Rae, William Hodgson
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Patent number: 7311739Abstract: There is described a fuel composition which is substantially free of alkoxylated compounds and is substantially free of long-chain alkyl alcohols having at least 6 C atoms, and contains at least 95% by volume of a hydrocarbon-based fuel and 0.1 to 5% by volume of an additive of the formula (I); R—CO—NR1R2 (I) in which R is a saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched alkyl radical having 6 to 21 C atoms; and R1 and R2, which may be the same or different, each represent a hydroxyalkyl radical having 1 to 4 atoms.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2003Date of Patent: December 25, 2007Assignees: AAE Technologies International PLC, Cognis Deutschland GmbH and Co. KGInventors: Frank Bongart, William Dinsley Hodgson, Alan Rae, Jurgen Roder
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Patent number: 7172635Abstract: There is described a fuel additive composition comprising an oleic alkanolamide and an alkoxylated oleic acid. There is also described a fuel composition comprising a hydrocarbon fuel and a fuel additive comprising an oleic alkanolamide and an alkoxylated oleic acid and also a method of running a combustion engine using the fuel if the invention.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2002Date of Patent: February 6, 2007Assignees: AAE Technologies International plc, Cognis Deutschland GmbH and Co. KGInventors: Frank Bongardt, William Hodgson, Alan Rae, Jurgen Roder
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Patent number: 6786939Abstract: A method is provided for reducing the vapour pressure (RVP) of a gasoline/alcohol mixture which comprises adding a surfactant composition comprising an alkanolamide, an alkoxylated alcohol and an alkoxylated fatty acid to a gasoline/alcohol mixture.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2002Date of Patent: September 7, 2004Assignee: AAE Technologies International PLCInventors: Clifford James Hazel, Ian Vernon Williamson
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Publication number: 20040060226Abstract: There is described a fuel composition which is substantially free of alkanolamides, containing at least 95 % by volume of a hydrocarbon-based fuel and from 0.1 to 5 % by volume of an additive selected from the groups consisting of: a) the optionally alkoxylated linear or branched saturated or unsaturated monoalcolhols having 8 to 24 C atoms, containing zero or 1 to 20 mol of ethylene oxide and/or 1 to 5 mol of propylene oxide per mol of alcohol, or b) the polyols having 2 to 6 carbon atoms, optionally partially esterified with fatty acids having 12 to 24 carbon atoms, or c) the alkoxylated fatty acids having 12 to 24 carbon atoms and 4 to 20 mol of ethylene oxide per mol of fatty acid, or d) the ethoxylated dimeric fatty acids.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2003Publication date: April 1, 2004Applicants: AAE Technologies International plc, Cognis Deutschland GmbH and Co. KGInventors: Frank Bongart, William Hodgson, Alan Rae, Jurgen Roder
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Publication number: 20040040202Abstract: There is described a fuel composition which is substantially free of alkoxylated compounds and is substantially free of long-chain alkyl alcohols having at least 6 C atoms, and contains at least 95% by volume of a hydrocarbon-based fuel and 0.1 to 5% by volume of an additive of the formula (I); R—CO—NR1R2 (I) in which R is a saturated or unsaturated, linear or branched alkyl radical having 6 to 21 C atoms; and R1 and R2, which may be the same or different, each represent a hydroxyalkyl radical having 1 to 4 atoms.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2003Publication date: March 4, 2004Applicants: AAE Technologies International plc, Cognis Deutschland GmbH and Co. KGInventors: Frank Bongart, William Dinsley Hodgson, Alan Rae, Jurgen Roder
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Patent number: 6695890Abstract: A fuel composition for a combustion engine that is treated with a hybrid molecule that is balanced into a polymer by ethoxylation, the result being a commercially viable fuel that is delivered to the point of combustion in the best possible condition with least resistance.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2001Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Assignee: AAE Technologies International plcInventors: Clifford James Hazel, Ian Vernon Williamson