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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 1979
Filed:
Oct. 11, 1977
Anthony R Gatti, Houston, TX (US);
James S Hokanson, Houston, TX (US);
Kenzie Nozaki, Houston, TX (US);
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
The prevention or substantial reversal of octane requirement increase in a spark-ignited, internal combustion engine is achieved by introducing, with the combustion intake charge, a fuel and/or lubricant composition containing an octane requirement increase-inhibiting amount of a high surface area, solid acid catalyst having an average particle size in the range of about 0.01 to 10 microns and an average non-volatile surface acidity of about 1 or less, expressed as pKa value, said solid acid catalyst being essentially nonreactive with the fuel or lubricant prior to combustion and chemically and thermally stable under combustion conditions in the engine.