Patents by Inventor Ludwig Voelkel

Ludwig Voelkel has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20170130153
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of an olefin-carboxylic acid copolymer, wherein the copolymer comprises at least one free carboxylic acid side group, or of a nitrogen compound quaternized with epoxide in the presence of an olefin-carboxylic acid copolymer, wherein the copolymer comprises at least one free carboxylic acid side group, as a fuel additive or lubricant additive; to processes for preparing additives of this kind, and to fuels and lubricants additized therewith; such as, more particularly, as a detergent additive; for reduction or prevention of deposits in the injection systems of direct injection diesel engines, especially in common rail injection systems, for reduction of the fuel consumption of direct injection diesel engines, especially of diesel engines with common rail injection systems, and for minimization of power loss in direct injection diesel engines, especially in diesel engines with common rail injection systems; and as an additive for gasoline fuels, especially for operation
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Maxim PERETOLCHIN, Harald BOEHNKE, Wolfgang GRABARSE, Ludwig VOELKEL, mARKUS HANSCH, Guenter OETTER, Aaron FLORES-FIGUEROA, Klaus MUEHLBACH, Ivette GARCIA CASTRO
  • Publication number: 20170066986
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel uses of corrosion inhibitors in fuels and lubricants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Jochen MEZGER, Maxim PERETOLCHIN, Aaron FLORES-FIGUEROA, Mark HANSCH, Ludwig VOELKEL, Ivette GARCIA CASTRO, Klaus MUEHLBACH, Harald BOEHNKE
  • Patent number: 9587194
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel acid-free quaternized nitrogen compounds, to the preparation thereof and to the use thereof as a fuel and lubricant additive, more particularly as a detergent additive, as a wax antisettling additive (WASA) or as an additive for reducing internal diesel injector deposits (IDID); to additive packages which comprise these compounds; and to fuels and lubricants thus additized. The present invention further relates to the use of these acid-free quaternized nitrogen compounds as a fuel additive for reducing or preventing deposits in the injection systems of direct-injection diesel engines, especially in common-rail injection systems, for reducing the fuel consumption of direct-injection diesel engines, especially of diesel engines with common-rail injection systems, and for minimizing power loss in direct-injection diesel engines, especially in diesel engines with common-rail injection systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Wolfgang Grabarse, Harald Boehnke, Christian Tock, Cornelia Roeger-Goepfert, Ludwig Voelkel
  • Publication number: 20170037336
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel uses of corrosion inhibitors in fuels and lubricants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Jochen MEZGER, Maxim PERETOLCHIN, Aaron FLORES-FIGUEROA, Markus HANSCH, Ludwig VOELKEL, Ivette GARCIA CASTRO, Klaus MUEHLBACH
  • Publication number: 20160272911
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of specific quaternised nitrogen compounds which are also subjected to specific transesterification or amidation, as a fuel and lubricant additive or kerosene additive, such as in particular as a detergent additive, for decreasing or preventing deposits in the injection systems of direct-injection diesel engines, in particular in common rail injection systems, for decreasing the fuel consumption of direct-injection diesel engines, in particular of diesel engines having common rail injection systems, and for minimizing the power loss in direct-injection diesel engines, in particular in diesel engines having common rail injection systems. The invention further relates to the use as an additive for petrol, in particular for operation of DISI engines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Markus HANSCH, Harald BOEHNKE, Wolfgang GRABARSE, Ludwig VOELKEL, Maxim PERETOLCHIN
  • Publication number: 20160272912
    Abstract: The use of a polyalkylene glycol of formula HO-(A-O)p—(CH2CH2—O)m-(A-O)q—H wherein A is a C3- to C20-alkylene group or a mixture of such alkylene groups, m is a number of from 2 to 100 and p and q are each numbers of from 1 to 100, as an additive in a fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ludwig VOELKEL, Markus HANSCH, Thomas HAYDEN, Marc WALTER, Nawid KASHANI-SHIRAZI, Thomas WEISS
  • Patent number: 9447351
    Abstract: A composition and method of improving the fuel economy of hydrocarbon fuel-powdered internal combustion engines. The composition contains a propoxylated and/or butoxylated reaction product of (a) at least one fatty acid, fatty acid ester, or mixture thereof and (b) a dialkanolamime. The composition is added to a hydrocarbon fuel in an amount of about 5 to about 2,000 ppm, based on the weight of the hydrocarbon fuel, to reduce friction within the engine and achieve an enhanced fuel economy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Alfred K. Jung, Ludwig Voelkel, Stefano Crema, Andrea Misske
  • Publication number: 20160264898
    Abstract: The use of a complex ester obtainable by esterification reaction between aliphatic linear or branched C2- to C12-dicarboxylic acids, aliphatic linear or branched polyhydroxy alcohols with 3 to 6 hydroxyl groups, and, as chain stopping agents, aliphatic linear or branched C1- to C30-monocarboxylic acids or aliphatic linear or branched monobasic Ci- to C30-alcohols, as an additive in a fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Marc WALTER, Dirk RETTEMEYER, Markus HANSCH, Ludwig VOELKEL, Bjoern Thomas HAHN, Muriel ECORMIER, Thomas HAYDEN
  • Publication number: 20160264899
    Abstract: The use of an alkoxylated polytetrahydrofurane of formula wherein m, m?, n, n?, p, p? and k are integers in the range of ?1, R1 denotes an unsubstituted linear or branched alkyl radical, R2 denotes —CH2—CH3, and R3 denotes a hydrogen atom or —CH3, as an additive in a fuel for reducing fuel consumption in the operation of an internal combustion engine with this fuel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ludwig VOELKEL, Markus HANSCH, Thomas HAYDEN, Marc WALTER, Nawid KASHANI-SHIRAZI, Thomas WEISS
  • Publication number: 20160251588
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of quaternized alkylamine nitrogen compounds as a fuel additive and lubricant additive, such as, more particularly, as a detergent additive; for reduction or prevention of deposits in the injection systems of direct injection diesel engines, especially in common rail injection systems, for reduction of the fuel consumption of direct injection diesel engines, especially of diesel engines with common rail injection systems, and for minimization of power loss in direct injection diesel engines, especially in diesel engines with common rail injection systems; and as an additive for gasoline fuels, especially for operation of DISI engines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Markus HANSCH, Harald BOEHNKE, Ludwig VOELKEL, Wolfgang GRABARSE, Jan STRITTMATTER
  • Publication number: 20160160144
    Abstract: Use of a hydrocarbyl-substituted dicarboxylic acid for improving or boosting the separation of water from fuel oils and gasoline fuels which comprise additives with detergent action. A Fuel additive concentrate comprising the said hydrocarbyl-substituted dicarboxylic acid, certain additives with detergent action and optionally other customary additives and solvents or diluents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Harald BOEHNKE, Ludwig VOELKEL, Marc WALTER
  • Patent number: 9359570
    Abstract: Polytetrahydrobenzoxazines and bistetrahydrobenzoxazines, obtainable by (A) reacting at least one diamine of the formula H2N-A-NH2 with a C1- to C12-aldehyde and a C1- to C8-alkanol at 20 to 80° C. with elimination and removal of water, (B) reacting the condensation product from (A) with a phenol which bears a long-chain substituent at 30 to 120° C., and optionally (C) heating the reaction product from (B) to 125 to 280° C. The resulting polytetrahydrobenzoxazines and bistetrahydrobenzoxazines are suitable as fuel or lubricant additives, especially as detergent additives for diesel fuels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Arno Lange, Harald Boehnke, Wolfgang Grabarse, Hannah Maria Koenig, Markus Hansch, Ludwig Voelkel, Ivette Garcia Castro
  • Publication number: 20160130514
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of quaternized nitrogen compounds as a fuel and lubricant additive or kerosene additive, such as in particular as a detergent additive, for decreasing or preventing deposits in the injection systems of direct-injection diesel engines, in particular in common rail injection systems, for decreasing the fuel consumption of direct-injection diesel engines, in particular of diesel engines having common rail injection systems, and for minimizing the power loss in direct-injection diesel engines, in particular in diesel engines having common rail injection systems; the invention further relates to the use as an additive for petrol, in particular for operation of DISI engines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Markus HANSCH, Harald BOEHNKE, Wolfgang GRABARSE, Ludwig VOELKEL, Maxim PERETOLCHIN
  • Publication number: 20160108331
    Abstract: The use of betaine compounds of the formula R1—CO—NH—X—NR2R3)+—Y—COO? where R1 denotes a linear or branched alkyl or alkenyl radical having 5 to 21 carbon atoms, R2 and R3 each independently denote C1- to C4-alkyl radicals, X denotes a hydrocarbon bridging element having 1 to 12 carbon atoms and Y denotes a linear or branched C1- to C4-alkylene group, as additives for fuels, especially as detergent additives for diesel fuels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Ludwig VOELKEL, Harald BOEHNKE, Wolfgang GRABARSE, Markus HANSCH, Maxim PERTOLECHIN, Dietmar POSSELT, Jelan KUHN
  • Patent number: 9255236
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel acid-free quaternized nitrogen compounds, to the preparation thereof and to the use thereof as a fuel and lubricant additive, more particularly as a detergent additive, as a wax antisettling additive (WASA) or as an additive for reducing internal diesel injector deposits (IDID); to additive packages which comprise these compounds; and to fuels and lubricants thus additized. The present invention further relates to the use of these acid-free quaternized nitrogen compounds as a fuel additive for reducing or preventing deposits in the injection systems of direct-injection diesel engines, especially in common-rail injection systems, for reducing the fuel consumption of direct-injection diesel engines, especially of diesel engines with common-rail injection systems, and for minimizing power loss in direct-injection diesel engines, especially in diesel engines with common-rail injection systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Wolfgang Grabarse, Harald Boehnke, Christian Tock, Cornelia Roeger-Goepfert, Ludwig Voelkel
  • Publication number: 20150275116
    Abstract: Use of a reaction product of saturated or unsaturated aliphatic mono- or polycarboxylic acids with aliphatic polyamines for improving or boosting the separation of water from fuel oils which comprise additives with detergent action. A Fuel additive concentrate comprising the said reaction product, certain additives with detergent action and optionally dehazers, cetane number improvers and solvents or diluents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Maxim PERETOLCHIN, Guenter OETTER, Harald BOEHNKE, Markus HANSCH, Ludwig Voelkel
  • Publication number: 20150266808
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel quaternized ammonium salts of hydrocarbyl epoxides, to the preparation thereof and to the use thereof as a fuel additive and lubricant additive, such as, more particularly, as a detergent additive; for reducing or preventing deposits in the injection systems of direct injection diesel engines, especially in common rail injection systems, for reducing the fuel consumption of direct injection diesel engines, especially of diesel engines with common rail injection systems, and for minimizing power loss in direct injection diesel engines, especially in diesel engines with common rail injection systems; and as an additive for gasoline fuels, especially for operation of DISI engines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2013
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Markus Hansch, Harald Boehnke, Wolfgang Grabarse, Hannah Maria Koenig, Arno Lange, Ludwig Voelkel
  • Publication number: 20150259618
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel acid-free quaternized nitrogen compounds, to the preparation thereof and to the use thereof as a fuel and lubricant additive, more particularly as a detergent additive, as a wax antisettling additive (WASA) or as an additive for reducing internal diesel injector deposits (IDID); to additive packages which comprise these compounds; and to fuels and lubricants thus additized. The present invention further relates to the use of these acid-free quaternized nitrogen compounds as a fuel additive for reducing or preventing deposits in the injection systems of direct-injection diesel engines, especially in common-rail injection systems, for reducing the fuel consumption of direct-injection diesel engines, especially of diesel engines with common-rail injection systems, and for minimizing power loss in direct-injection diesel engines, especially in diesel engines with common-rail injection systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: WOLFGANG GRABARSE, Harald Boehnke, Christian Tock, Cornelia Roeger-Goepfert, Ludwig Voelkel
  • Publication number: 20150252277
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel quaternized polyetheramines and to the preparation thereof. The present invention further relates to the use of these compounds as a fuel and lubricant additive. More particularly, the invention relates to the use of these quaternized nitrogen compounds as a fuel additive for reducing or preventing deposits in the injection systems of direct injection diesel engines, especially in common rail injection systems, for reducing the fuel consumption of direct injection diesel engines, especially of diesel engines with common rail injection systems, and for minimizing power loss in direct injection diesel engines, especially in diesel engines with common rail injection systems. The invention also provides additive packages comprising these polyetheramines; and fuels and lubricants additized therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Markus HANSCH, Harald BOEHNKE, Ludwig VOELKEL, Marc WALTER, Wolfgang GRABARSE
  • Patent number: 9062266
    Abstract: The use of imidazolium salts (I) where R1 and R3 are each independently an organic radical having 1 to 3000 carbon atoms, R2, R4 and R5 are each independently hydrogen or an organic radical having 1 to 3000 carbon atoms, X is an anion and n is the number 1, 2 or 3 as additives for fuels, especially as detergent additives for diesel fuels, as wax antisettling additives for middle distillate fuels and as lubricity improvers, and for improving the use properties of mineral and synthetic nonaqueous industrial fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Maxim Peretolchin, Ludwig Voelkel, Harald Boehnke, Markus Hansch, Boris Gaspar, Christian Seitz