Environmentally friendly diesel fuel

US6013114A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Clariant Corporation · DE

Inventors

• Martin Hille · Liederbach, DE
• Frank Weinelt · Altötting, DE
• Heinz Wittkus · Frankfurt am Main, DE
• Werner Reimann · Frankfurt, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 27, 1998
• Grant date: Jan 11, 2000
• Expiry date: Jan 27, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02E50/10
• WIPO field: Basic materials chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present invention relates to environmentally friendly diesel fuel, containing natural, liquid triglycerides of natural or animal origin, such as rapeseed or soybean oil, and acetals of the formula (I) or (II) ##STR1## in which the substitutents have the meaning defined in the description. This diesel fuel is biodegradable and free of sulfur, nitrogen and aromatics.