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Title: Combination of ethylene polymer, polymer having alkyl side chains, and nitrogen containing compound to improve cold flow properties of distillate fuel oils

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OSTI ID:5041148

A description is given of a wax-containing petroleum fuel oil comprising a major proportion of a distillate oil boiling in the range of 120 to 500/sup 0/C, which fuel oil has been improved in its low temperature flow properties, containing in the range of about 0.001 to 0.5 wt. %, based on the weight of the total composition, of a flow improving combination of: (A) one part by weight of an oil-soluble ethylene backbone distillate flow improving polymer having a number average molecular weight in the range of about 500 to 50,000; (B) 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of a second oil-soluble polymer of monomers other than ethylene, having a molecular weight in the range of about 1000 to 200,000 wheren at least 10% by weight of said polymer is in the form of straight chain alkyl groups having 6 to 30 carbon atoms, said polymer comprising unsaturated ester, or unsaturated ester and olefin, monomer moieties, said moieties comprising a major weight proportion of said polymer; and (C) 0.01 to 10 parts by weight of an oil soluble nitrogen compound containing a total of about 30 to 300 carbon atoms and having at least one straight chain alkyl segment of 8 to 40 carbons, and selected from the class consisting of amine salts and/or amides of hydrocarbyl carboxylic acids or anhydrides having 1 to 4 carbonyl groups.

Assignee:
Exxon Research and Engineering Co
Patent Number(s):
US 4211534
OSTI ID:
5041148
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: Filed date 30 Aug 1978
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English