Abstract: The invention provides additive mixtures comprising A) at least one terpolymer of ethylene, propene and at least one ethylenically unsaturated ester, which i) contains from 6.0 to 12.0 mol % of structural units derived from at least one ethylenically unsaturated ester having a C1- to C3-alkyl radical, ii) contains from 0.5 to 4.0 methyl groups derived from propene per 100 aliphatic carbon atoms, iii) has fewer than 8.0 methyl groups stemming from chain ends per 100 CH2 groups, and B) from 0.5 to 20 parts by weight, based on A), of at least one further component which is effective as a cold additive for mineral oils and is selected from B1) copolymers of ethylene and ethylenically unsaturated compounds whose content of ethylenically unsaturated compounds is at least 2 mol % higher than the content of ethylenically unsaturated esters in the terpolymer defined under A), B2) comb polymers, and B3) mixtures of B1) and B2), and also their use as a cold additive for middle distillates.

Abstract: The invention provides fuel oils comprising a major proportion of a mixture of A) a middle distillate fuel oil and B) a biofuel oil, and also a minor proportion C) of an oil-soluble, crosslinked block copolymer composed of C2- to C4-alkylene oxides.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the preparation of ?-(dimethylisopropenylbenzylurethane) polyalkylene glycols with ?-alkoxy or ?-dihydroxy groups and to the use thereof as hydrolysis-stable macromonomers for the dispersion and crosslinking of polymers in which, A is C2-C4-alkylene, m is an integer from 5 to 900, and R is C1-C20-alkyl, C6-C18-aryl or a radical according to formula 2a, 2b, 2c, 3a, 3b or 3c which is bonded to the terminal oxygen atom of the alkoxy group (A-O) in formula 1 via the valence denoted by *, and in which A is not exclusively C3- or C4-alkylene.

Abstract: The invention provides a fuel oil composition comprising a fuel oil of animal or vegetable origin, in which a total of more than 6% by weight of palmitic acid methyl ester and stearic acid methyl ester are present, and, as an additive, A) at least one copolymer which contains 10-20 mol % of structural units of at least one vinyl ester and 80-90 mol % of structural units of ethylene, and B) at least one comb polymer containing structural units formed from B1) at least one olefin as monomer 1, which bears at least one C8-C18-alkyl radical on the olefinic double bond, and B2) at least one ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid as monomer 2, which bears at least one C8-C16-alkyl radical bonded via an amide and/or imide group, in which the parameter Q Q = ? i ? ? w 1 ? i · n 1 ? i + ? j ? ? w 2 ? j · n 2 ? j in which w1 is the molar proportion of the individual chain lengths n1 in the alkyl radicals of monomer 1, w2 is the molar proportion of the individ

Abstract: The invention provides additive mixtures comprising A) at least one terpolymer of ethylene, propene and at least one ethylenically unsaturated ester, which i) contains from 6.0 to 12.0 mol % of structural units derived from at least one ethylenically unsaturated ester having a C1- to C3-alkyl radical, ii) contains from 0.5 to 4.0 methyl groups derived from propene per 100 aliphatic carbon atoms, iii) has fewer than 8.0 methyl groups stemming from chain ends per 100 CH2 groups, and B) from 0.5 to 20 parts by weight, based on A), of at least one further component which is effective as a cold additive for mineral oils and is selected from B1) copolymers of ethylene and ethylenically unsaturated compounds whose content of ethylenically unsaturated compounds is at least 2 mol % higher than the content of ethylenically unsaturated esters in the terpolymer defined under A), B2) comb polymers, and B3) mixtures of B1) and B2), and also their use as a cold additive for middle distillates.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuel oil additive comprising A) a copolymer of ethylene and from 13 to 17 mol % of at least one acrylic ester or vinyl ester having a C1-C18-alkyl radical and a melt viscosity V140 of not more than 80 mPas, and B) a comb polymer comprising structural units formed from B1) at least one olefin as monomer 1, which bears at least one C8-C18-alkyl radical on the olefinic double bond, and B2) at least one ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid as monomer 2, which bears at least one C8-C16-alkyl radical bonded via an amide and/or imide group, in which the parameter Q Q = ? i ? w 1 ? ? i · n 1 ? i + ? j ? w 2 ? j · n 2 ? j in which w1 is the molar proportion of the individual chain lengths n1 in the alkyl radicals of monomer 1, w2 is the molar proportion of the individual chain lengths n2 in the alkyl radicals of the amide and/or imide groups of monomer 2, n1 are the individual chain lengths in the alkyl radicals of monomer 1, n2 are

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fuel oil additive comprising A) a copolymer of ethylene and from 13 to 17 mol % of at least one acrylic ester or vinyl ester having a C1-C18-alkyl radical and a melt viscosity V140 of not more than 80 mPas, and B) a comb polymer comprising structural units formed from B1) at least one olefin as monomer 1, which bears at least one C8-C18-alkyl radical on the olefinic double bond, and B2) at least one ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid as monomer 2, which bears at least one C8-C16-alkyl radical bonded via an ester group, in which the parameter Q Q = ? i ? w 1 ? i · n 1 ? i + ? j ? w 2 ? j · n 2 ? j in which w1 is the molar proportion of the individual chain lengths n1 in the alkyl radicals of monomer 1, w2 is the molar proportion of the individual chain lengths n2 in the alkyl radicals of the ester groups of monomer 2, n1 are the individual chain lengths in the alkyl radicals of monomer 1, n2 are the individual chain len

Abstract: The invention provides graft copolymers obtainable by grafting an ester (a) of a C8- to C22-alcohol and acrylic acid onto a copolymer (b) containing, in addition to ethylene, from 0.5 to 16 mol % of at least one vinyl ester of the formula 1 CH2?CH—OCOR1??(1) where R1 is a branched C5- to C15-alkyl radical, with the proviso that the copolymer b) contains less than 3.5 mol % of vinyl acetate.

Abstract: The invention provides graft copolymers obtainable by grafting an ester (a) of a C8- to C22-alcohol and acrylic acid onto a copolymer (b) containing, in addition to ethylene, from 3.5 to 21 mol % of vinyl acetate and from 0.5 to 16 mol % of at least one vinyl ester of the formula 1 CH2?CH—OCOR1??(1) where R1 is C2- to C30-alkyl, with the proviso that the copolymer b) contains less than 0.5 mol % of alkenes having 3 to 30 carbon atoms.

Abstract: The invention provides an additive for fuel oils, comprising at least one copolymer of ethylene and an unsaturated ester, at least one oil-soluble polar nitrogen compound which is a reaction product of amines of the formula NR6R7R8 in which R6, R7 and R8 may be the same or different, and at least one of these groups is C8-C36-alkyl, C6-C36-cycloalkyl, C8-C36-alkenyl, especially C12-C24-alkyl, C12-C24-alkenyl or cyclohexyl, and the remaining groups are hydrogen, C1-C36-alkyl, C2-C36-alkenyl, cyclohexyl or a group of the formulae -(A-O)x-E or —(CH2)n—NYZ in which A is an ethyl or propyl group, x is from 1 to 50, E=H, C1-C30-alkyl, C5-C12-cycloalkyl or C6-C30-aryl, and n=2, 3 or 4, and Y and Z are each independently H, C1-C30-alkyl or -(A-O)x with compounds which contain at least one acyl group, and at least one aromatic compound of the formula 1, in which R is H or C1- to C4-alkyl.

Abstract: The invention provides graft copolymers obtainable by grafting an ester (a) of a C8- to C22-alcohol and acrylic acid to a copolymer (b) which contains from 3.5 to 21 mol % of vinyl acetate in addition to ethylene, and for their use as cold additives in fuel oils.

Abstract: The present invention provides an additive for improving the cold flow properties of vegetable or animal fuel oil. The additive comprises A) a copolymer of ethylene and 8–21 mol % of at least one acrylic or vinyl ester having a C1–C18-alkyl radical and B) a comb polymer of at least one C8–C16-alkyl ester of an ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid and at least one C10–C20-olefin, wherein the sum Q Q = ? i ? w 1 ? i · n 1 ? i + ? j ? w 2 ? j · n 2 ? j ?of the molar averages of the carbon chain distributions in the alkyl side chains of the olefins (monomer 1) and the fatty alcohols (monomer 2) is from 23 to 27. In Q, w1 and w2 are the molar proportions of the individual chain lengths in the comb polymer from the different monomers 1 and 2, and n1 and n2 are the side chain carbon atom lengths, excluding comb polymer bonded carbon atoms of monomer 1, and the running variables i and j are the individual side chain lengths in the particular monomer groups.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the preparation of ?-(dimethylisopropenylbenzylurethane) polyalkylene glycols with ?-alkoxy or ?-dihydroxy groups and to the use thereof as hydrolysis-stable macromonomers for the dispersion and crosslinking of polymers in which, A is C2-C4-alkylene, m is an integer from 5 to 900, and R is C1-C20-alkyl, C6-C18-aryl or a radical according to formula 2a, 2b, 2c, 3a, 3b or 3c which is bonded to the terminal oxygen atom of the alkoxy group (A-O) in formula 1 via the valence denoted by *, and in which A is not exclusively C3- or C4-alkylene.

Abstract: The invention provides fuel oils comprising a major proportion of a mixture of A) a middle distillate fuel oil and B) a biofuel oil, and also a minor proportion C) of an oil-soluble, crosslinked block copolymer composed of C2- to C4-alkylene oxides.

Abstract: The invention provides fuel oils comprising a major proportion of a mixture of

Abstract: The present invention provides an additive comprising