Distillable fuel markers

• US 9,688,930 B2
• Filed: 11/05/2013
• Issued: 06/27/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC (Dow, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC (Dow, Inc.)
• Inventors: Green, George David, Swedo, Raymond J., Gras, Ronda L., Luong, Jim C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Singh, Prem C
• Assistant Examiner(s): GRAHAM, CHANTEL LORAN
• Application Number:
  US14/441,202
• Publication Number:
  US 20150307795A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,330 Days
• Field of Search: 44442, 44447
• CPC Class Codes: C10L 1/003 Marking, e.g. coloration by addition of pigments
• CPC Class Codes: C10L 1/18 containing oxygen
• CPC Class Codes: C10L 1/1852 Ethers; Acetals; Ketals; Orthoesters
• CPC Class Codes: C10L 10/00 Use of additives to fuels or fires for particular purposes additives for liquid carbonaceous fuels characterised by their chemical nature C10L1/10; using binders for briquetting solid fuels C10L5/10; using additives to improve the combustion of solid fuels C10L9/10
• CPC Class Codes: C10L 2200/0446 Diesel
• CPC Class Codes: C10L 2230/02 Absorbents, e.g. in the absence of an actual absorbent column or scavenger
• CPC Class Codes: C10L 2230/16 Tracers which serve to track or identify the fuel component or fuel composition
• CPC Class Codes: C10L 2270/026 for diesel engines, e.g. automobiles, stationary, marine

Abstract

A method for marking a petroleum hydrocarbon or a liquid biologically derived fuel by adding to the petroleum hydrocarbon or liquid biologically derived fuel at least one compound having formula Ar(R²)_m(OR¹)_n, wherein Ar is an aromatic ring system having from six to twenty carbon atoms, R¹ is C₁-C₁₂ alkyl or C₂-C₁₂ alkenyl, R² is C₁-C₁₂ alkyl or C₃-C₁₂ alkenyl, m is an integer from zero to five and n is an integer from one to three; wherein each compound of formula Ar(R²)_m(OR¹)_n is present at a level from 0.01 ppm to 100 ppm.

Claims

1. A method for marking a petroleum hydrocarbon or a liquid biologically derived fuel;

said method comprising adding to said petroleum hydrocarbon or liquid biologically derived fuel at least one compound having formula (I)

2. The method of claim 1 in which m is zero to two.

3. The method of claim 2 in which R² is C₁-C₆ alkyl.

4. The method of claim 3 in which n is one.

5. The method of claim 4 in which m is zero or one, and R² is C₁-C₄ alkyl.

6. The method of claim 5 in which each compound of formula (I) is present at a level from 0.05 ppm to 50 ppm.

7. The method of claim 3 in which n is two or three, R¹ is methyl, R² is methyl and m is zero or one.

8. The method of claim 7 in which R¹ is methyl and m is zero.

9. The method of claim 8 in which each compound of formula (I) is present at a level from 0.05 ppm to 50 ppm.

10. The method of claim 1 in which m is zero, n is one and R¹ is C₄-C₁₂ alkyl or C₄-C₁₂ alkenyl.

11. The method of claim 10 in which R¹ is C₄-C₁₂ alkyl.

12. The method of claim 11 in which R¹ is C₄-C₁₀ alkyl.