Shell Oil Comapny

Richard Miles

Leonard B Graiff

Gautam Tavanappa Kalghatgi

John S McArragher

Cornelis Van Es

Rudolf F Heldeweg

Improved gasoline compositions containing a minor amount of a polyalphaolefin having a viscosity at 100.degree. C. from 2 to 20 centistokes, and optionally also an aliphatic polyamine, an alkali or alkaline earth metal salt of a succinic acid derivative, and/or a polyolefin; together with a concentrate for the production of such gasoline composition and a method of operating a spark-ignition engine using such gasoline composition.

Gasoline composition

Gasoline composition comprising a major amount of a gasoline suitable for use in spark-ignition engines, and a minor amount of an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal salt of a succinic acid having as substituent on at least one of its .alpha.-carbon atoms an unsubstituted or substituted aliphatic hydrocarbon group having from 20 to 200 carbon atoms, or of a succinic acid derivative having as substitutent on one of its .alpha.-carbon atoms an unsubstituted or substituted aliphatic hydrocarbon group having from 20 to 200 carbon atoms which is connected to the other .alpha.-carbon atom by means of a hydrocarbon moiety having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms.

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Manley, United Kingdom

Richard Miles