Claims
- 1. A fuel composition comprising a major amount of a fuel and a minor multifunctional additive, ashless detergent, antioxidant and metal-surface protecting amount of a reaction product of a hydrocarbylsuccinimide dimer, an aldehyde and a heteroatom-substituted benzoic acid which has the following structural formula: ##STR8## where X is the heteroatomic group which is a hydroxyl, thiol or a primary or secondary nitrogenous group represented by NH.sub.2 or NHR.sub.2 where R.sub.2 is a hydrocarbon group.
- 2. The composition of claim 1 in which the heteroatom substituted benzoic acid further comprises at least one hydrocarbon substituent group bonded to the benzene nucleus of the benzoic acid, the hydrocarbon group containing 1 to 60 carbon atoms which is an alkyl, aryl, alkenyl, aralkyl, or alkaryl group.
- 3. The composition of claim 1 in which the hydrocarbylsuccinimide is derived from two equivalent amounts of a hydrocarbylsuccinic anhydride and one molar amount of an alkylenepolyamine compound having the following structural formula: ##STR9## where A is an alkylene group, n and m are integers where n ranges from 0 to 7 and m ranges from 1 to 8.
- 4. The composition of claim 1 in which the hydrocarbylsuccinimide dimer is derived from two equivalent amounts of the reaction product of a hydrocarbylsuccinic anhydride and one molar amount of an amine selected from the group consisting of aromatic polyamines, in which at least one aromatic group is substituted directly onto the amine group, phenylenealkyleneamines in which the alkylene group is part of an aromatic system and heterocyclic amines in which the amine group is bound to a cyclic system containing at least one heteroatom which is oxygen, sulfur or nitrogen and the heterocyclic amine is a substituent of an alkylenepolyamine or phenylenepolyamine.
- 5. The composition of claim 3 in which the hydrocarbylsuccinimide is derived from maleic anhydride and an olefin such as ethylene, propylene, isopropylene, butylene, isobutylene, pentylene, hexylene, heptylene, decylene, dodecylene and eicosene, higher olefinic hydrocarbons, polymers of said olefins and copolymers of said olefins.
- 6. The composition of claim 5 in which the alkylenepolyamine is diethylenetriamine, triethylenetetramine, tetraethylenepentamine and pentaethylenehexamine.
- 7. The composition of claim 1 in which the aldehyde is paraformaldehyde, formaldehyde, salicylaldehyde, acetaldehyde, propionaldehyde, benzaldehyde, butyraldehyde, hexaldehyde and heptaldehyde.
- 8. The composition of claim 1 in which the hydrocarbylsuccinimide, the aldehyde and the heteroatom-substituted benzoic acid react in a mole ratio of hydrocarbylsuccinimide to aldehyde to heteroatom-substituted benzoic acid of 1:0.1:0.1 to 1:4:4.
- 9. The composition of clam 1 in which the reactants are contacted at temperatures ranging from 80.degree. C. to 200.degree. C.
- 10. A method of making a fuel comprising blending a major amount of a fuel and a minor multifunctional ashless detergent, antioxidant and metal-surface protecting amount of a reaction product of a hydrocarbylsuccinimide dimer, an aldehyde and a heteroatom-substituted benzoic acid which has the following structural formula: ##STR10## where X is the heteroatomic group which is a hydroxyl, thiol or a primary or secondary nitrogenous group represented by NH.sub.2 or NHR.sub.2 where R.sub.2 is a hydrocarbon group.
- 11. The composition of claim 1 in which the reaction product is blended with the fuel in an amount ranging from 25 pounds to 500 pounds of additive per 1000 barrels of fuel.
Parent Case Info
This is a division of copending application Ser. No. 07/781,449, filed on Oct. 23, 1991 now U.S. Pat. No. 5,160,649.
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