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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:
May. 29, 1979
Filed:
Jan. 24, 1977
Applicant:
Inventors:
Levi C Parker, Port Arthur, TX (US);
Kenneth D Miller, Spring, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texaco Inc., White Plains, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C10L / ; F17D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
137 13 ; 44 62 ; 44 70 ; 44 61 ;
Abstract
A low-pour fuel composition is prepared by blending with a gas oil a minor amount of a high asphaltene residuum, such as an Arabian Light 1050.degree. F. residuum, and from about 0.003 to about 0.50 weight percent of an oil-soluble copolymer which can be, for example, an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer or a block copolymer of the A--B--A type wherein the A block is derived from an ester of acrylic acid or methacrylic acid and an aliphatic alcohol and the B block is a copolymer of ethylene and vinyl acetate, etc.