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A premium synthetic lubricating oil base stock having a high VI and low pour point is made by hydroisomerizing a Fischer-Tropsch synthesized waxy, paraffinic feed wax and then dewaxing the hydroisomerate to form a 650-750 DEG F.+ dewaxate. The waxy feed has an initial boiling point in the range of about 650-750 DEG F., from which it continuously boils up to at least 1050 DEG F. and has a T90-T10 temperature difference of at least 350 DEG F. The feed is preferably hydroisomerized without any pretreatment, other than optional fractionation. The 650-750 DEG F.+ dewaxate is fractionated into two or more base stocks of different viscosity.

Processes and reactor systems are provided for the conversion of oxygenated hydrocarbons to hydrocarbons, ketones and alcohols useful as liquid fuels, such as gasoline, jet fuel or diesel fuel, and industrial chemicals. The process involves the conversion of mono-oxygenated hydrocarbons, such as alcohols, ketones, aldehydes, furans, carboxylic acids, diols, triols, and / or other polyols, to C4+ hydrocarbons, alcohols and / or ketones, by condensation. The oxygenated hydrocarbons may originate from any source, but are preferably derived from biomass.

Premium synthetic lubricants comprise a synthetic isoparaffinic hydrocarbon base stock and an effective amount of at least one, and typically a plurality of lubricant additives such as a detergent, dispersant, antioxidant, antiwear additive, pout point depresant, VI improver and the like. The base stock is derived from a waxy, paraffinic, Fischer-Tropsch synthesized hydrocarbon feed fraction having an initial boiling point in the range of about 650-750° F. and continuously boiling up to at least 1050° F., by a process which comprises hydroisomerizing the feed and dewaxing the isomerate. The waxy feed has a T90-T10 temperature difference of at least 350° F. and is preferably hydroisomerized without any pretreatment, other than optional fractionation. The lubricant may also contain hydrocarbonaceous and synthetic base stock material. Lubricants, such as fully formulated multigrade automotive crankcase and transmission oils formed by adding a suitable additive package to the isoparaffinic base stock have exhibited performance superior to similar fully formulated oils based on both PAO and conventional, petroleum derived base stocks.

A process has been developed for producing aviation fuel from renewable feedstocks such as plant oils and animal fats and oils. The process involves treating a renewable feedstock by hydrogenating and deoxygenating to provide n-paraffins having from about 8 to about 24 carbon atoms. At least some of the n-paraffins are isomerized to improve cold flow properties. At least a portion of the paraffins are selectively cracked to provide paraffins meeting specifications for different aviation fuels such as JP-8.

Gelled organic compositions and methods for using same. The gelled compositions may be liquid organic fluids, such as gelled liquid hydrocarbons, formed from a mixture of an organic-base fluid, a carboxylic acid, and one or more metal source compounds, such as a metal salt of carboxylic acid. The gelled compositions may be used in variety of applications including, but not limited to, oil field, pipeline and processing facility applications.

The invention relates to a new base stock material. Specifically the invention relates to a saturated hydrocarbon composition and particularly to a composition based on biological raw materials, to be used as a high-quality base oil or to be used as a component in the production of a base oil having a high viscosity index and good low temperature properties. The composition contains saturated hydrocarbons and has a narrow carbon number range.

Two lubricating polyurea-ester compositions with high stability and extreme-pressure antiwear performance contain proportionally basic oil, urea-based thickening agent, Ca-based thickening agent and extreme-pressure agent for composition A, or the composition A plus inorganic Ca salt for composition B.

Lubricant blends and finished gear oils comprising a lubricant base oil fraction derived from highly paraffinic wax, a petroleum derived base oil, and a pour point depressant are provided. The lubricant base oil fraction derived from highly paraffinic wax comprises less than 0.30 weight percent aromatics, greater than 5 weight percent molecules with cycloparaffinic functionality, and a ratio of weight percent of molecules with monocycloparaffinic functionality to weight percent of molecules with multicycloparaffinic functionality greater than 15. The petroleum derived base oils comprises greater than 90 weight percent saturates and less than 300 ppm sulfur and is preferably selected from the group consisting of a Group II base oil, a Group III base oil, and mixtures thereof. These lubricant blends have surprising low Brookfield viscosities at −40° C.

A composition of lubricating base oil having a weight percent of all molecules with at least one aromatic function less than 0.30, a weight percent of all molecules with at least one cycloparaffin function greater than 10, and a ratio of weight percent of molecules with monocycloparaffins to weight percent of molecules with multicycloparaffins greater than 15.

The invention relates to grease compositions containing high viscosity index polyalphaolefins (HVI-PAO) and polyurea thickeners. The use of HVI-PAOs and polyurea thickeners in a bi-modal base stock grease application provides favorable frictional properties and improved overall performance.

The invention discloses a synthetic high-temperature lubricating grease and a production method thereof. The synthetic high-temperature lubricating grease is produced by taking synthetic oil as base oil and mixing the base oil with thickening agents, an extreme-pressure additive, an antioxidant and an anticorrosive agent, wherein the weight ratios of all ingredients are as follows: 47-94% of base oil, 2-20% of polyurea thickening agent, 2-20% of acylamide thickening agent, 0.5-5.0% of antioxidant, 1.0-5.0% of extreme-pressure additive and 0.5-3.0% of anticorrosive agent. In the invention, the synthetic base oil, the polyurea thickening agent and the acylamide thickening agent all have excellent high-temperature performance, and the organic combination thereof leads the lubricating grease to obtain excellent high-temperature performance; the polyurea thickening agent endows the lubricating grease with good colloid stability, and the acylamide thickening agent endows the lubricating grease with excellent anti-shear stability, therefore, the organic combination of colloid stability and anti-shear stability leads the lubricating grease to have excellent high-temperature performance and good losing resistance, does not change to thin and avoids losing at high temperature. The extreme-pressure anti-wear additive endows the lubricating grease with excellent extreme-pressure anti-wear performance, and the bearing capacity is high.

A method for improving the lubricating properties of a distillate base oil characterized by a pour point of 0 degrees C. or less and a boiling range having the 10 percent point falling between about 625 degrees F. and about 790 degrees F. and the 90 percent point falling between about 725 degrees F. and about 950 degrees F., the method comprises blending with said distillate base oil a sufficient amount of a pour point depressing base oil blending component to reduce the pour point of the resulting base oil blend at least 3 degrees C. below the pour point of the distillate base oil, wherein the pour point depressing base oil blending component is an isomerized Fischer-Tropsch derived bottoms product having a pour point that is at least 3 degrees C. higher than the pour point of the distillate base oil.

The invention provides an open gear grease composition, which comprises the following components and the weight percentage contents are that gelatinizer 2-6%, mineral oil 20-60%, synthetic oil 20-60%, antioxidant 0.3-1%, oil solubility anti-wear extreme pressure additive 1-15%, solid additive 3-20% and rust inhibitor 1-3%. The open gear grease composition of the invention does not contain dissolvent and bitumen, which has no harmless to environment, and solves the problems that bitumen-type open gear oil has bad pollution and low-temperature performance, and the flowability of open gear grease is bad. The open gear grease composition has outstanding water resistance, adhesiveness and antiwear and extreme pressure property.

The invention relates to a high-temperature-resistant extreme pressure type lubricating grease composition and a preparation method of the high-temperature-resistant extreme pressure type lubricating grease composition. The preparation method comprises steps as follows: mixing high-base-value calcium naphthenate, high-base-value sulfoacid calcium, and 35 to 65% of base oil; agitating; then adding a transforming agent; heating to reach 75 to 105 DEG C; maintaining the temperature for 40 to 120 minutes until the materials are thick; continuously heating the material until the temperature reaches more than 200 DEG C; removing the water completely, wherein the rest base oil is added during heating; continuously heating the materials until the temperature reaches 220 to 240 DEG C; agitating for 5 to 30 minutes at constant temperature until the materials are thick; and cooling and homogenizing to obtain the product as requirements. The lubricating grease prepared by the preparation method is high in comprehensive performance, excellent in high-temperature resistance, and high in extreme-pressure wear resistance, and can be used for lubricating high-temperature equipment with high load; and the requirements on use in high-temperature and high-load lubricating situations in the ferrous metallurgy industry can be met.

The present invention provides composite lithium-based lubricating grease and a preparation method thereof. The composite lithium-based lubricating grease consists of thickener, base oil and additive. The thickener consists of 12-hydroxy stearic acid lithium dibasic acid and / or lithium borate, and the mol ratio is 1 ®U 0.1 to 1 ®U 0.1to 1. The base oil is mineral oil or poly-alpha-olefin synthesis oil. The additive consists of organic amine compound antioxidant, benzotriazole and barium petroleum sulfonate or barium dinonylnaphthalene sulfonate anti-corrosion additive and rust protection agent, dialkyl dithiocarbamate or dibenzyl disulfide and sulfurized olefin cottonseed oil extreme pressure antiwear additive and nanometer copper powder repairing additive. The contents of the thickener and the base oil are respectively 6 percent to 18 percent and 82 percent to 94 percent according to the weight percentage. The lubricating grease has the multi-effect performances of high dripping point, good high-temperature performance and low-temperature performance, chemical invariability, colloid invariability, antiwear extreme pressure performance etc., and especially has the repairing function towards a damaged bearing.

Disclosed herein is a method for inhibiting the premature polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomers comprising adding to said monomers an effective amount of: A) at least one nitroxyl compound, and B) at least one quinone alkide compound having an electron-withdrawing group at the 7-position. Additionally, a composition is disclosed that comprises: A) at least one nitroxyl compound, and B) at least one quinone alkide compound having an electron-withdrawing group at the 7-position.

A stable distillate fuel blend useful as a fuel or as a blending component of a fuel that is suitable for use in turbine engine, said fuel blend prepared from at least one highly paraffinic distillate fuel component having low to moderate branching and at least one conventional petroleum-derived distillate fuel component and a process for preparing same involving the blending of at least two components having antagonistic properties with respect to one another.

A process for producing a lubricating base oil blend which comprises (a) recovering a Fischer-Tropsch derived distillate fraction characterized by a kinematic viscosity of about 2 cSt or greater but less than 3 cSt at 100 degrees C.; and (b) blending the Fischer-Tropsch derived distillate fraction with a petroleum derived base oil selected from the group consisting of a Group I base oil, a Group II base oil, a Group III base oil, and a mixture of two or more of any of the foregoing conventional base oils in the proper proportion to produce a lubricating base oil blend characterized as having a viscosity of about 3 or greater; also the base oil blends, finished lubricants, and their use in internal combustion engines.

Disclosed is a method of preparing terminally functionalized telechelic polymers using a cationic living polymer product or a terminal tert-chloride chain end of a carbocationic quasiliving polymer product, which comprises quenching the polymer product with an N-substituted pyrrole to thereby functionalize the N-substituted pyrrole at the terminal reactive polymer chain end(s). Also disclosed are the terminal functionalized polyisobuyl N-substituted pyrrole compounds where the polyisobutyl group is substituted at the 2 and 3 position of the N-substituted pyrrole.

The present invention addresses the processing of waste and low-value products to produce useful materials in reliable purities and compositions, at acceptable cost, and with high energy efficiency. In particular, the invention comprises a multi-stage process that converts various feedstocks such as offal, animal manures, municipal sewage sludge, that otherwise have little commercial value, to useful materials including gas, oil, specialty chemicals, and carbon solids. The process subjects the feedstock to heat and pressure in a reducing environment accomplished by controlled addition of sulfur and sodium, separates out various components, then further applies heat and pressure to one or more of those components. The invention further comprises an apparatus for performing a multi-stage process of converting waste products into useful materials, and at least one oil product that arises from the process.

A process for preparing Fischer-Tropsch derived lubricating base oils by blending a Fischer-Tropsch distillate fraction having a viscosity of 2 or greater but less than 3 cSt at 100 degrees C. with a Fischer-Tropsch derived bottoms fraction; lubricating base oil compositions having a viscosity between about 3 and about 10 cSt at 100 degrees C. and a TGA Noack volatility of less than about 45 weight percent; and finished lubricants using the aforesaid lubricating base oils.

An overbased calcium sulfonate grease composition comprising a reduced amount of overbased calcium sulfonate, added calcium carbonate, base oil, one or more converting agents, and one or more complexing acids if a complex grease is desired. The calcium sulfonate grease composition improves thickener yield and expected high temperature utility as demonstrated by dropping point. The calcium carbonate may be used to react with complexing acids when making a complex grease, such that the addition of calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide is not required. A method of making the composition comprising the steps of mixing the overbased calcium sulfonate and base oil, adding the calcium carbonate, adding one or more converting agents, and adding one or more complexing acids. All or a portion of one or more of the complexing acids may be added with or prior to the one or more converting agents.

A process for producing a hydrocarbon composition that comprises contacting a feed stream, that comprises at least one C3 to C8 olefin, and an olefinic recycle stream, that comprises a first olefinic recycle stream and no more than 10 wt % of C10+ non-normal olefins, with a molecular sieve catalyst in a reaction zone under olefin oligomerization conditions producing an oligomerization effluent stream; separating the oligomerization effluent stream to produce a first olefinic stream, that has a weight ratio of C4− / (C5-C8) molecules from about 0.8 to about 1.2 times the weight ratio of C4− / (C5-C8) molecules found in the oligomerization effluent stream, and a first hydrocarbon product stream, that comprises at least 1 wt % and no more than 30 wt % of C9 non-normal olefin; and splitting the first olefinic stream to produce the first olefinic recycle stream and a first purge stream.

A method and a composition used therein are disclosed for inhibiting formation of hydrocarbon hydrates. The composition comprises an onium compound, an amine salt and, optionally, a solvent. The method and composition are particularly useful for oil and gas production

The invention provides a composition of matter and a method of its use in preventing unwanted polymerization reactions. The composition comprises an inhibitor and a retarder. The inhibitor is highly effective. The retarder is reliable under extreme and emergency situations. The inhibitor can be an alkylhydroxylamine. The retarder can be a 7-cyano-quinone methide. The combination of the inhibitor and retarder has been found to be far more effective than expected.