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Gasoline fuel additive composition

US4380456A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJul 30, 1981
Grant dateApr 19, 1983
Priority date
Expiry dateJul 30, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC C)Chemistry; Metallurgy
  • CPC primaryC10L1/19
  • WIPO fieldBasic materials chemistry
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A composition suitable for use as an additive to gasoline to increase the efficiency of use thereof comprising, in solution: about 10 to about 35 percent by volume of a zirconium salt of an organic acid; about 10 to about 35 percent by volume of a plasticizer boiling above 300.degree. C. and comprising as a part of its structure an ester group or an aromatic group, or both; and from 0 to about six percent by volume of an organic acid capable of forming a salt with zirconium. A solvent for said zirconium salt and said plasticizer may be provided comprising a hydrocarbon or a halogenated aliphatic hydrocarbon, or a mixture thereof, as a major component of the solvent.

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