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  • Distillate fuel blends from Fischer Tropsch products with improved seal swell properties
    Patent number: 6890423
    Abstract: The invention provides distillate fuel blend components with improved seal swell and lubricity properties obtained from Fischer Tropsch products. The blends contain a highly paraffinic distillate fuel component and distillate-boiling alkylcycloparaffins and/or distillate-boiling alkylaromatics. The invention further provides processes for obtaining such blends using the products of Fischer Tropsch processes. Finally, the invention provides methods for improving seal swell and lubricity properties for distillate fuels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.
    Inventor: Dennis J. O'Rear