Additive for hydrocarbon fuel and related process
AssigneeEnviroFuels, LLC
InventorsDwight Morrell Smith, Abdul R. Chughtai, James Dadura
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Abstract
The present invention relates to the field of fuel additives for hydrocarbon fuels that acts to enhance efficiency and/or reduce pollution. The fuel additive is a phosphorus-containing composition that can be dispersed in hydrocarbon fuels or liquid carriers for combustion with the fuel in a combustion zone.
Claims10
A fuel additive comprising a phosphorus-containing parent solution and a carrier fluid, the phosphorus-containing parent solution comprising a mixture of salts, the mixture of salts comprising:
- [Y]xH2PO4;
- [Y]x+1HPO4;
- and
- [NH4]2HPO4, wherein [Y] is a cation, wherein x is an integer, the carrier fluid being operable to maintain the salts within the carrier fluid in at least a partially dispersed state, the fuel additive being operable to enhance combustion when placed into contact with fuel in a combustion zone and combusted, the enhanced combustion being measurable by increased fuel efficiency or decreased pollutant output in an exhaust gas resulting from the combustion of the fuel and the fuel additive.
A process for creating a fuel additive for enhancing combustion of a hydrocarbon fuel, the process comprising the steps of:
- Mixing the salts [Y]xH2PO4 [Y]x+1HPO4, and [NH4]2HPO4, wherein [Y] is a cation and wherein x is an integer, in a solvent to at least partially disperse the salts in the solvent to create a phosphorus-containing parent solution;
- Mixing the phosphorus-containing parent solution with a carrier fluid such that the phosphorus-containing parent solution is generally dispersed in the carrier fluid;
- Removing a substantial portion of the solvent from the mixture of the phosphorus-containing parent solution with the carrier fluid to create a fuel additive that is operable to enhance combustion when added to a combustion zone in the presence of a hydrocarbon fuel and combusted.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.