Stabilization of hydrocarbon fluids using metal deactivators

• Main Authors: FISHER; SHERRI L, STREET; JOSEPH P
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 24.06.1997
• Edition: 6
• Subjects: ADDING MATERIALS TO FUELS OR FIRES TO REDUCE SMOKE ORUNDESIRABLE DEPOSITS OR TO FACILITATE SOOT REMOVAL; CHEMISTRY; CRACKING HYDROCARBON OILS; FIRELIGHTERS; FUELS; FUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; LUBRICANTS; METALLURGY; MINERAL WAXES; NATURAL GAS; PEAT; PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; PRODUCTION OF LIQUID HYDROCARBON MIXTURES, e.g. BY DESTRUCTIVEHYDROGENATION, OLIGOMERISATION, POLYMERISATION; RECOVERY OF HYDROCARBON OILS FROM OIL-SHALE, OIL-SAND, ORGASES; REFINING MIXTURES MAINLY CONSISTING OF HYDROCARBONS; REFORMING OF NAPHTHA; SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BYSUBCLASSES C10G, C10K; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE

The invention is a composition for use in deactivating iron species in hydrocarbon fluids, comprising the products resulting from the reaction of (I), with (II) and (III) is disclosed; wherein (I) is a substituted catechol of the structure , or arylalkyl from about 1 to 20 carbon atoms; wherein (II) is a mixture of polyamines having the repeat structure (II) wherein m ranges from 1 to 10 and where X is an alkyl, branched alkyl, cyclic or branched cyclic alkyl of from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and where Y is a substituted alkylphenol of structure where R'' is chosen from alkyl, aryl, alkaryl, arylalkyl of from about 1 to 22 carbon atoms; wherein (III) is an aldehyde of structure (III) where R' is chosen from hydrogen, and an alkyl of from 1 to 6 carbon atoms. Also disclosed is the function of the said same composition, resulting from the reaction of (I) with (II) and (III), as an antioxidant in hydrocarbon fluids. The antioxidant function is separate from, and in addition to the metal deactivating properties of the invention. These functional properties of the invention can act either singly, or in concert, for the stabilization of hydrocarbon fluids. Further a method of deactivating iron species in hydrocarbon fluids using the described compound is disclosed.