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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 1977
Filed:
Jun. 17, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
Robert J Basalay, Naperville, IL (US);
Peter G Pappas, Downers Grove, IL (US);
Walter C Edmisten, Olympia Fields, IL (US);
Assignee:
Standard Oil Company (Indiana), Chicago, IL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
526331 ;
Abstract
Crude oils and residual fuel oils having improved pour point and flow properties are obtained by incorporating therein a small amount of a new terpolymer prepared from ethylene, a vinyl ester, and a dialkylvinyl carbinol. The terpolymer has a number average molecular weight of about 500-10,000 and suitably contains 45-80 wt. % ethylene, 10-25 wt. % vinyl ester of a fatty acid having up to about eight carbon atoms and 10-30 wt. % dialkylvinyl carbinol wherein the alkyl groups have up to about six carbon atoms.