Abstract: Disclosed are cloud point depressants and methods of making and using them. The disclosed cloud point depressants comprise copolymers of a maleic moiety polymerized with alpha olefins and then contacted with an aliphatic tertiary amine to provide a cloud depressant reaction product. When the disclosed reactions products are added to middle distillate fuels or blends of middle distillate fuels with biodiesel, the cloud point depressants inhibit the precipitation of waxes and/or biowaxes in the fuels and the fuels exhibit reduced precipitation, gelling, and/or crystallization when subjected to low or cold temperatures.

Abstract: Disclosed are paraffin inhibitors, paraffin suppressant compositions, and methods of making and using them. The paraffin inhibitors comprise polymers of a maleic moiety polymerized with at least two olefins having hydrocarbon chains of a different length from each other. When added to hydrocarbon media such as crude oils to form crude oil compositions, the paraffin inhibitors inhibit the precipitation of paraffin waxes in the crude oil compositions and exhibit reduced precipitation, gelling, and/or crystallization from the hydrocarbon media when the media are subjected to sustained low temperatures.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for reducing fouling by natural and synthetic foulants that tend to precipitate during petroleum collecting, processing, transporting, and storing. The method includes applying one or more antifouling polymers to a petroleum product to form a treated petroleum product, wherein fouling by the treated petroleum product is reduced and a stable dispersion is formed over a wide range of processing conditions. The one or more antifouling polymers include the polymerized residues of one or more ?-olefins and maleic anhydride, further wherein the maleic anhydride residues are reacted with a primary amine. Concentrates of the antifouling polymers in solvents are stable and pourable at temperatures of 0° C. to ?40° C.

Abstract: An additive formulation suitable for antistatic modification and improving the electrical conductivity of inanimate organic material, consisting essentially of (A) from 1 to 50% by weight of an olefin-sulfur dioxide copolymer, (B) from 1 to 50% by weight of a compound which comprises one or more basic nitrogen atoms and has at least one relatively long-chain linear or branched hydrocarbon radical having at least four carbon atoms or an equivalent structural element which ensures the solubility of component (B) in the inanimate organic material, (C) from 0.1 to 30% by weight of an oil-soluble acid and (D) from 1 to 80% by weight of a high-boiling organic solvent which consists of one or more molecule types, where at least 80% by weight of these molecule types have a boiling point of more than 150° C. at standard pressure, where the sum of all components adds up to 100% by weight.

Abstract: A compound useful for reducing fouling in a hydrocarbon refining process is provided. A method for preparing the compound includes functionalizing a polymer having a vinyl chain end to obtain a terminal group having one or more anhydride units, and reacting the anhydride units with a polyamine. Methods of using the compound and compositions thereof are also provided.

Abstract: An additive formulation suitable for antistatic modification and improving the electrical conductivity of inanimate organic material, consisting essentially of (A) from 1 to 50% by weight of an olefin-sulfur dioxide copolymer, (B) from 1 to 50% by weight of a compound which comprises one or more basic nitrogen atoms and has at least one relatively long-chain linear or branched hydrocarbon radical having at least four carbon atoms or an equivalent structural element which ensures the solubility of component (B) in the inanimate organic material, (C) from 0.1 to 30% by weight of an oil-soluble acid and (D) from 1 to 80% by weight of a high-boiling organic solvent which consists of one or more molecule types, where at least 80% by weight of these molecule types have a boiling point of more than 150° C. at standard pressure, where the sum of all components adds up to 100% by weight.

Abstract: An additive formulation suitable for antistatic modification and improving the electrical conductivity of inanimate organic material, consisting essentially of (A) from 1 to 50% by weight of an olefin-sulfur dioxide copolymer, (B) from 1 to 50% by weight of a compound which comprises one or more basic nitrogen atoms and has at least one relatively long-chain linear or branched hydrocarbon radical having at least four carbon atoms or an equivalent structural element which ensures the solubility of component (B) in the inanimate organic material, (C) from 0.1 to 30% by weight of an oil-soluble acid and (D) from 1 to 80% by weight of a high-boiling organic solvent which consists of one or more molecule types, where at least 80% by weight of these molecule types have a boiling point of more than 150° C. at standard pressure, where the sum of all components adds up to 100% by weight.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to oil compositions, primarily to fuel oil and petroleum compositions produced there from susceptible to wax formation at low temperatures, to polymeric amides for use with such fuel oil compositions, and to methods for their manufacture.

Abstract: This invention provides a composition and a method of using a composition containing an imidazoline, optionally containing a paraffin inhibitor, for improving the pour point of liquid hydrocarbons, such as crude oil and petroleum fuel, and/or inhibiting or reducing the formation of paraffin deposits in such liquids.

Abstract: An oil-soluble lubricating oil additive composition prepared by the process which comprises (A) reacting a copolymer of an (i) an unsaturated acidic reagent; and (ii) a mono-olefin, with at least one linking hydrocarbyl di-primary amine, thereby producing a hybrid succinic anhydride copolymer having from about 10% to about 90% unreacted anhydride groups; and subsequently (B) reacting the hybrid succinic anhydride copolymer with a second amine compound, thereby producing the succinimide.

Abstract: The present invention provides a polymeric a fuel composition comprising (i) a fuel; and (ii) a polymeric compound; wherein the polymeric compound comprises at least one monomer unit of Formula I wherein R1 is H or a C1-10 hydrocarbyl group; wherein L is an optional C1-30 hydrocarbyl linker group; and wherein heterocycle is an optionally substituted heterocyclic ring.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a new low molecular weight copolymer (The PIB/UAR copolymer) that may be prepared by reacting a low molecular weight polyisobutene (PIB) having less than about 32 carbon atoms with an unsaturated acidic reagent in the presence of a free radical initiator. No chain transfer agent is required to prepare the low molecular weight PIB/UAR copolymer. The PIB/UAR copolymer may be useful as is, or as an intermediate for (1) polysuccinimides, (2) detergents or dispersants for lube oil or fuels, (3) pour point depressants and (4) surface sizing agents for paper. The PIB/UAR copolymer may be used by itself or as the ester, amide, imide or metal salt derivative of the PIB/UAR copolymer. The PIB/UAR copolymer may be liquid at ambient temperature.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a filling station for filling a motor vehicle with gaseous fuel. The fuel is compressed, stored temporarily and expanded in the fuel tank of said vehicle. The fuel has a high water content. According to the invention, oil or an oil mixture is added in a dosed manner to said fuel.

Abstract: There is provided use of a thermal stabiliser for increasing the thermal stability of a cetane improver in a fuel composition comprising (i) a fuel, and (ii) the cetane improver wherein the thermal stabiliser is a compound of the formula H—R1 wherein H is a group comprising a heterocyclic group and R1 is a hydrocarbyl group having from 10 to 200 carbons.

Abstract: Improved fuel additives and distillate fuels containing said additives are described. The additives impart improved low temperature flow and filterability and also impart stability to distillate fuels, particularly hard-to-treat distillate fuels. The additives are a combination of an olefin/vinyl carboxylate polymer and two specific polyimides having different alkyl substituents.

Abstract: The invention provides photoluminescent markers consisting essentially of fluorene copolymers, which are colorless or nearly colorless to the naked eye and exhibit strong photoluminescence between about 380-800 nm upon exposure to ultra-violet radiation or laser light. The soluble fluorene copolymers described in this invention having a general formula as shown in Formula 1.

Abstract: This invention is directed to a new low molecular weight copolymer (The PIB/UAR copolymer) that may be prepared by reacting a low molecular weight polyisobutene (PIB) having less than about 32 carbon atoms with an unsaturated acidic reagent in the presence of a free radical initiator. No chain transfer agent is required to prepare the low molecular weight PIB/UAR copolymer. The PIB/UAR copolymer may be useful as is, or as an intermediate for (1) polysuccinimides, (2) detergents or dispersants for lube oil or fuels, (3) pour point depressants and (4) surface sizing agents for paper. The PIB/UAR copolymer may be used by itself or as the ester, amide, imide or metal salt derivative of the PIB/UAR copolymer. The PIB/UAR copolymer may be liquid at ambient temperature.

Abstract: The invention relates to blends of copolymers containing structural units of olefins, derivatives of dibasic carboxylic acids and, if required, polyolefins and, structural units of ethylene and vinyl esters of tertiary carboxylic acids, and their use as additives to fuel oils for improving their cold flow properties.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel maleimide- or alicyclic olefin-based monomer, a copolymer resin of these monomers and a photoresist using the copolymer resin. The maleimide-introduced copolymer resin according to the present invention can easily be copolymerized with alicyclic olefin unit, has a physical property capable of enduring in 2.38% TMAH developer and increases adhesion of ArF or KrF photoresist. The photoresist film using a copolymer resin according to the present invention can be applied to highly integrate semiconductor devices.

Abstract: An additive for distillate and a fuel composition having improved cloud point depressant properties. The additive is incorporated into a major proportion of distillate fuel and is a maleic anhydride .alpha.-olefin copolymer or a polyimide having the following structure: ##STR1## wherein R has at least 80% by weight of a hydrocarbon substituent from about 14 to about 16 carbons, X is oxygen or ##STR2## wherein N is nitrogen and R' has at least 80% by weight of a hydrocarbon substituent from 16 to 18 carbons, and n is from about 2 to about 30 when X is oxygen, and from about 2 to about 17 when X is ##STR3## Alternatively, the cloud point additive can be an ethylene vinyl acetate isobutylene terpolymer.

Abstract: A succinimide composition is prepared by reacting a mixture of a polyalkenyl derivative, an unsaturated acidic reagent copolymer, and a polyamine under reactive conditions. The polyalkenyl derivative is produced by reacting an unsaturated acidic reagent with a polyalkene in the presence of a strong acid. The unsaturated acidic reagent copolymer is a copolymer of an unsaturated acidic reagent and an olefin.

Abstract: A mixture contains(a) from 10 to 90% by weight of at least one imide of a copolymer based on an .alpha.-olefin and an ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid and a polyamine and(b) from 10 to 90% by weight of at least one reaction product of a poly(C.sub.2 -C.sub.20 -carboxylic acid) having a tertiary amino group with secondary aminesand is used as a paraffin dispersant in mineral oil middle distillates.

Abstract: This invention concerns the utilization of polymeric compounds generated from Mannich base macromonomers as lubricant oil and fuel additives or intermediates to such additives. Requisite macromonomers are generated via Mannich reaction of high molecular weight alkyl phenols and unsaturated amines. Homopolymers of the Mannich base macromonomers or copolymers with activated unsaturated monomers, such as maleic anhydride, are of particular interest as crankcase dispersants. For example, functionalization of Mannich base macromonomer/maleic anhydride copolymers with amines affords effective crankcase dispersants. Such polymeric dispersants are designed to impart superior sludge protection and improved viscometrics to lubricant oils.

Abstract: Polymer blends containa) from 10 to 90% by weight of an imide of a copolymer based on an .alpha.-olefin and on an ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid and a polyamine andb) from 10 to 90% by weight of a copolymer which differs from a) and contains at least two monomers selected from the group consisting of ethylene, acrylates, vinyl esters, vinyl ethers and ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acids or dicarboxylic acid derivatives,and are used as additives for mineral oil middle distillates.

Abstract: A succinimide composition is prepared by reacting a mixture of an alkenyl or alkylsuccinic acid derivative, an unsaturated acidic reagent copolymer, and a polyamine under reactive conditions; then treating the reaction product with either a cyclic carbonate or a linear mono- or polycarbonate or boron compound under reactive conditions. The alkenyl or alkyl substituent of the alkenyl or alkylsuccinic acid derivative has a Mn of from 1800 to 3000. The unsaturated acidic reagent copolymer has a Mn of from 2000 to 4800, and is a copolymer of an unsaturated acidic reagent and an olefin having an average of from 14 to 30 carbon atoms. The polyamine has at least three nitrogen atoms and 4 to 20 carbon atoms. The mixture contains from 1.5 to 10 equivalents of the alkenyl or alkylsuccinic acid derivative per equivalent of unsaturated acidic reagent copolymer and from 0.4 to 1.0 moles of polyamine per equivalent of alkenyl or alkylsuccinic acid derivative plus unsaturated acidic reagent copolymer.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a fuel additive comprising at least one adduct of (A) a polyolefin of 300 to 10,000 number average molecular weight substituted with at least 0.3 (e.g., from about 1 to 4) mono- or dicarboxylic acid producing moieties (preferably acid or anhydride moieties) per polyolefin molecule, (B) an amido-amine or thioamido-amine characterized by being a reaction product of at least a polyamine and an alpha, beta-unsaturated compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein X is sulfur or oxygen, Y is --OR.sup.4, --SR.sup.4, or --NR.sup.4 (R.sup.5), and R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 are the same or different and are hydrogen or substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl.

Abstract: Improved additives/detergents for lubricant and fuel compositions are obtained by condensing a hydroxyalkyl or hydroxyaryl compound with an amine compound. The condensates according to the present invention are produced by the acid catalyzed condensation of the amine reactant with the hydroxy reactant.

Abstract: An additive for improving the dispersibility of a particulate substance in an organic medium, a thermoplastic polymer, or a thermosetting resin, is at least one compound having a ##STR1## bond in the molecule, including, for example, compounds having an oxazolinium ion in the molecule. The preferred additive compounds are oligomeric or polymeric.

Abstract: A fuel additive is the reaction product of an intermediate reaction product of a hydrocarbon-substituted succinic anhydride and an aminosalicylic acid, preferably a 4-aminosalicylic acid. The intermediate is reacted with an aldehyde, preferably formaldehyde and an alkylenepolyamine preferably tetraethylenepentamine. The reaction product is post reacted with a hydrocarbon-substituted succinic anhydride which can be the same or different as the hydrocarbon-substituted succinic anhydride of the intermediate. The additive has dispersant and detergent properties and is effective in liquid hydrocarbon or liquid oxygenated fuels or mixtures of the said fuels.

Abstract: A fuel composition contains an antiwear additive comprising the reaction product of heterocyclic compound having antiwear activity such as a triazole e.g. benzotriazole, tolyltriazole, and a copolymer with succinic anhydride moiety, such as an olefin/maleic anhydride copolymer.

Abstract: Novel copolymers of unsaturated acidic reactants and high molecular weight olefins wherein at least 20 percent of the total high molecular weight olefin comprises the alkylvinylidene isomer are useful as dispersants in lubricating oils and fuels and also may be used to prepare polysuccinimides and other post-treated additives useful in lubricating oils and fuels.