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The Preparation And Use Of Polymeric Metal Complexes As Fuel Oil Combustion Catalysts, Sebastian Vasquez
The Preparation And Use Of Polymeric Metal Complexes As Fuel Oil Combustion Catalysts, Sebastian Vasquez
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The effect of high molecular weight carboxylate ligands as compared to naphthenate ligands on the effectiveness of transition metals as additives for reducing soot particulates was studied in the combustion of diesel fuel and distillate fuel oil by use of a laboratory scale burner. A mechanism involving pseudoheterogenous catalytic reactions is proposed. A simple system to evaluate fuel additives by burning only a few milliliters of oil was designed, developed, and used. Polybutene with an average molecular weight of 920 was the raw material in this study. The polymer was oxidized with KMnO4 to the corresponding acid from whose potassium …