US 12,012,565 B2
Wax anti-settling additive composition for use in diesel fuels
Jody A. Kocsis, Chagrin Falls, OH (US); Scott Capitosti, Perry, OH (US); Thomas S. Corrigan, Lakewood, OH (US); David J. Aaserud, Painesville, OH (US); Gregory Mathes, Streetsboro, OH (US); Anthony R. Frank, Painesville, OH (US); Elizabeth A. Schiferl, St. Paul, MN (US); and James C. Ray, Sevierville, TN (US)
Assigned to The Lubrizol Corporation, Wickliffe, OH (US)
Appl. No. 17/787,539
Filed by The Lubrizol Corporation, Wickliffe, OH (US)
PCT Filed Oct. 1, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/053804
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 20, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/126342, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 24, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/950,176, filed on Dec. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0389341 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. C10L 10/14 (2006.01); C10L 1/198 (2006.01); C10L 1/222 (2006.01); C10L 1/2387 (2006.01)
CPC C10L 1/2222 (2013.01) [C10L 1/1981 (2013.01); C10L 1/2387 (2013.01); C10L 10/14 (2013.01); C10L 2200/0446 (2013.01); C10L 2200/0476 (2013.01); C10L 2270/026 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A composition comprising:
a. at least one fuel that is a diesel fuel, a biodiesel fuel, or combinations thereof;
b. less than 100 ppmof an alkylene-coupled C10 to C60 alkylphenol;
c. 25 to 500 ppm of a terpolymer formed from ethylene, propylene, and vinyl acetate; and
d. 5 to 90 ppm of hydrocarbyl-substituted amine detergent having at least one tertiary amino group
wherein the fuel has a total normal paraffin content of at least 5 to 30 wt %, based on a total weight of the fuel and wherein the normal paraffin distribution is between C5 to C44 as measured by gas chromatography (ASTM D2887).