Exxon Chemical Patents, Inc.

Sally J Ayres

Kenneth Lewtas

Robert Dryden Tack

Iain More

Jacqueline D Bland

Rodger F Andrews

Additives for distillate fuel are a copolymer of (1) an alpha olefin having two to seventeen carbon atoms per molecule or an aromatic substituted olefin having eight to forty carbon atoms per molecule and (2) a mono- or di-alkyl fumarate, itaconate, citraconate, mesaconate, trans- or cis-glutaconate, in which the alkyl group has 8 to 23 carbon atoms.

Fuel compositions

A crude oil or fuel oil composition comprises a major proportion by weight of a crude oil or a fuel oil and a minor proportion by weight of a polycarbonate containing the group ##STR1## where n is an integer of two or more and A is an alkylene, aralkylene or arylene radical, provided the alkylene group can be interrupted by one or more hetero atoms or by one or more carboxylic ester, carbamoyl, urethane, urea or tertiary amino groups. A typical polycarbonate has the formula ##STR2## where R are C.sub.10 to C.sub.30 alkyl groups.

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