Deposit control additives and fuel compositions containing the same
AssigneeMobil Oil Corporation
InventorsHenry Ashjian, Matthew P. Miller, Dong-Ming Shen, Margaret M. Wu
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Abstract
A fuel additive having detergency, solubility and thermal stability comprises a detergent component, e.g., polyalkenyl succinimide, and a carrier fluid obtained from a diamondoid fluid comprising an compound selected from the group consisting of adamantane, diamantane, triamantane, tetramantane, and the alkyl-substituted derivatives thereof.
Claims20
An additive having detergency properties for normally liquid fuels comprising a combination of
- i) a detergent component and
- ii) a carrier fluid component comprising at least one compound selected from the group consisting of adamantane, diamantane, triamantane, tetramantane, and the alkyl-substituted derivatives thereof.
A liquid fuel composition comprising a major amount of a liquid fuel and an additive having detergency, the additive comprising a combination of
- i) a detergent component;
- and
- ii) a carrier fluid comprising at least one component selected from the group consisting of adamantane, diamantane, triamantane, tetramantane, and the alkyl-substituted derivatives thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.