Patents Assigned to JGS Research Company, Inc.
  • Process for preparing ignition promoter, and fuel containing an ignition promoter
    Patent number: 6280487
    Abstract: A process for preparing the ignition promoter comprises combining a sugar with selected solvents and heating to form a stable solution, reacting the resulting solution with an oxirane and thereafter reacting the resulting product with nitric acid under nitrating conditions. A fuel for use in compression ignition engines contains a lower alcohol and about 0.15 to 30 wt % of the ignition promoter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: JGS Research Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Johann G. Schulz, Engelina Porowski