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Gasoline additive composition

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6252981
This patent describes a gasoline additive composition comprising the following components: (a) from about 0.1 to about 20% by weight of an organic peroxide; (b) from about 0.5 to about 20% by weight of a gasoline detergent selected from fatty amines and the ethoxylated and propoxylated derivatives of fatty diamines, fatty imidazolines formed by reaction of a fatty acid having from ten to twenty carbon atoms with ethylene diamine and derivatives; polymeric amines and derivates; and combinations of the amines, diamines, fatty imidazolines, and polymeric amines with carboxylic acids having from three to forty carbon atoms; (c) from about 99.4 to about 60% by weight of a hydrocarbon solvent selected from unleaded gasoline and higher boiling solvents compatible with gasoline and having no adverse effect on the performance of gasoline in the engine; this composition is intended to be used in unleaded and leaded gasolines at a level of from about 0.01% to about 5%.
Assignee:
Wynn Oil Co., Fullerton, CA
Patent Number(s):
US 4684373
OSTI ID:
6252981
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English