US20060213118A1 - Low-sulfur diesel fuel and use of fatty acid monoalkyl esters as lubricant improvers for low-sulfur diesel fuels - Google Patents

Low-sulfur diesel fuel and use of fatty acid monoalkyl esters as lubricant improvers for low-sulfur diesel fuels Download PDF

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US20060213118A1
US20060213118A1 US11/341,259 US34125906A US2006213118A1 US 20060213118 A1 US20060213118 A1 US 20060213118A1 US 34125906 A US34125906 A US 34125906A US 2006213118 A1 US2006213118 A1 US 2006213118A1
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Michael Koncar
Wilhelm Hammer
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    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C10PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; PEAT
    • C10LFUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NATURAL GAS; SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C10G, C10K; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; ADDING MATERIALS TO FUELS OR FIRES TO REDUCE SMOKE OR UNDESIRABLE DEPOSITS OR TO FACILITATE SOOT REMOVAL; FIRELIGHTERS
    • C10L10/00Use of additives to fuels or fires for particular purposes
    • C10L10/08Use of additives to fuels or fires for particular purposes for improving lubricity; for reducing wear
    • CCHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C10PETROLEUM, GAS OR COKE INDUSTRIES; TECHNICAL GASES CONTAINING CARBON MONOXIDE; FUELS; LUBRICANTS; PEAT
    • C10LFUELS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NATURAL GAS; SYNTHETIC NATURAL GAS OBTAINED BY PROCESSES NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C10G, C10K; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; ADDING MATERIALS TO FUELS OR FIRES TO REDUCE SMOKE OR UNDESIRABLE DEPOSITS OR TO FACILITATE SOOT REMOVAL; FIRELIGHTERS
    • C10L1/00Liquid carbonaceous fuels
    • C10L1/10Liquid carbonaceous fuels containing additives
    • C10L1/14Organic compounds
    • C10L1/18Organic compounds containing oxygen
    • C10L1/19Esters ester radical containing compounds; ester ethers; carbonic acid esters

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  • the invention relates to a low-sulfur diesel fuel containing a maximum amount of 0.2% by weight of sulfur and fatty acid monoalkyl esters in an amount of between 10 and 50,000 ppm as lubricity improvers.
  • EP 0 680 506 B describes the use of esters as lubricity improvers.
  • EP 0 635 558 A1 describes the use of fatty acid monoalkyl esters from saturated and unsaturated fatty acid esters in an amount of from 100 to 10,000 ppm.
  • methyl esters of the composition in which the fatty acids are present in vegetable oils are used without any further pretreatment or separation.
  • a similar application can be learnt from WO 94/17160.
  • WO 96/07632 describes the production of agents for lubricity improvement by double transesterification of vegetable oils, wherein, in the first stage, fatty acid monoalkyl esters are produced which are transesterified with a polyol in a second stage. Similar compounds are described in EP 1 088 880 A1.
  • U.S. Pat. No. 5,891,203 describes the use of a mixture of biodiesel and diethanolamine derivatives as lubricity improvers in low-sulfur fuels.
  • fatty acid amides from diethanolamine and fatty acids are used, wherein especially oleic acid is used as the preferred fatty acid.
  • the amount of biofuels in the EU is meant to rise to an amount of 5.75% by the year 2010.
  • raw materials such as used edible oils, animal fats or palm oil will increasingly have to be used as raw material sources.
  • the present invention starts here, which has as its object to provide an improved low-sulfur diesel fuel having a maximum amount of 0.2% by weight of sulfur, which diesel fuel contains fatty acid monoalkyl esters in an amount of between 10 and 50,000 ppm as lubricity improvers and with which the above-mentioned problem is diminished.
  • the low-sulfur diesel fuel according to the invention contains a maximum amount of 0.2% by weight of sulfur and fatty acid monoalkyl esters in an amount of between 10 and 50,000 ppm as lubricity improvers and is characterized in that the fatty acid moieties of the fatty acid monoalkyl esters originate from saturated fatty acids by at least 50%, in particular by at least 70%, with the fatty acid monoalkyl esters preferably being provided as fatty acid methyl esters.
  • the present invention is based on the surprising realization that the lubricating ability of fatty acid monoalkyl esters apparently depends on the content of saturated fatty acid derivatives. For instance, it has been possible to show that fatty acid esters having a content of more than 50% of saturated fatty acids show a substantially higher lubricity improvement in a low-sulfur diesel fuel than a biodiesel made of rape oil or soy bean oil.
  • the amounts of esters comprising unsaturated fatty acids can be separated off.
  • the fatty acid ester fractions which are obtained by fractional crystallization or distillation and are characterized by a high content of saturated fatty acids are particularly well suited as lubricity improvers.
  • the fatty acid monoalkyl esters contained in the diesel fuel according to the invention are preferably produced from vegetable fats and/or oils.
  • Possible raw materials are all natural vegetable or animal oils and/or fats whose content of saturated fatty acids already amounts to more than 50%, or corresponding products which were produced by enrichment or separation of the saturated fatty acids from the respective oils and fats.
  • appropriate fractions from the processing of palm oil (palm stearin) or animal fat fractions are used.
  • a further embodiment of the diesel fuel according to the invention is characterized in that it additionally contains one or more additives for improving the cetane number or for improving the low-temperature behaviour.
  • the invention relates to an agent for improving the lubricity of diesel fuels containing fatty acid monoalkyl esters which is characterized in that the fatty acid moieties of the fatty acid monoatkyl esters originate from saturated fatty acids by at least 50%, in particular by at least 70%.
  • the invention relates to a process for the production of a fatty acid monoalkyl ester whose fatty acid moieties originate from saturated fatty acids by at least 50%, in particular by at least 70%, which process is characterized in that a fatty acid monoalkyl ester whose fatty acid moieties originate from saturated and unsaturated fatty acids is subjected to fractional crystallization or distillation.
  • the invention relates to the use of fatty acid monoalkyl esters as lubricity improvers for low-sulfur diesel fuels, with the fatty acid moieties of the fatty acid monoalkyl esters originating from saturated fatty acids by at least 50%, in particular by at least 70%.
  • lubricity is determined by way of the abrasion of a rotating ball. In this method, an abrasion of 460 ⁇ m is regarded as the threshold value.
  • the reference fuel used for the tests was a sulfur-free, non-additivated diesel fuel having an abrasion value of 569 ⁇ m.
  • biodiesel samples made of animal fat, rape oil, soy bean oil and used edible oil
  • fatty acid monoalkyl esters having a content of saturated fatty acids of more than 50% constitute ideal additives for improving the lubricating properties of sulfur-free diesel fuels.
  • the starting product was an animal fat having the following fatty acid composition:
  • Palmitic acid 25.17%
  • Linoleic acid 9.24%
  • said fat was converted with methanol and potassium hydroxide into the corresponding fatty acid methyl esters.
  • the fatty acid methyl esters obtained were separated into two fractions at low temperatures, wherein the fraction having a high content of saturated fatty acids was used as a lubricant additive.
  • the fatty acid composition of said fraction was as follows:
  • Palmitic acid 33.75%
  • Linoleic acid 2.62%
  • a technical fatty acid distillate made of palm oil and having the following fatty acid composition was used as a raw material for the production of fatty acid methyl esters:
  • Palmitic acid 52.07%
  • Oleic acid 33.80%
  • Palm stearin produced by fractional crystallization from palm oil and having the following fatty acid composition was used as a raw material for the production of fatty acid methyl esters:
  • Palmitic acid 73.83%
  • Linoleic acid 3.52%
  • palm stearin was subjected to multistage transesterification, whereby the corresponding fatty acid methyl esters were obtained.
  • Raw palm oil having the following fatty acid composition was used as a raw material for the production of fatty acid methyl esters:
  • Palmitic acid 44.23%
  • Linoleic acid 11.74%

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