The charcoal starter provides a housing with an upper chamber and a lower chamber. The housing is constructed from a combustible material that is sufficiently rigid to enable the housing to store and support an amount of charcoal within the upper chamber. A divider separates the upper chamber from the lower chamber. The divider supports the charcoal above the lower chamber. The lower chamber provides space for placement of paper or other combustible material, such as a combustible solid, within the lower chamber. A user lights the combustible material to start a fire and generate heat. The heat and fire from the lower chamber travels upward to the upper chamber to light the charcoal. The charcoal starter burns to ashes during use as the charcoal burns.

A method of stabilizing asphaltenes in a petroleum hydrocarbon fluid comprises contacting the petroleum hydrocarbon fluid with a mixed phenol aldehyde derived from an aldehyde and two or more unsubstituted or alkyl-substituted monophenols, the two or more unsubstituted or alkyl-substituted monophenols comprising a first phenol which is a C.sub.1-20 linear or branched alkyl monophenol; and a second phenol which is unsubstituted or a C.sub.1-20 linear or branched alkyl monophenol different from the first phenol, wherein the molar ratio of the first phenol relative to the second phenol is about 4:1 to about 1:4.

Low sulfur fuel oil blend compositions and methods of making such blend compositions to increase the stability and compatibility of LSFO blends having paraffinic resids that are blended with distillates and/or cracked stocks of higher asphaltenes and/or aromatics content. In one or more embodiments, distillates and/or cracked stocks that incrementally reduce the initial aromaticity of the distillate or cracked stock with the highest aromaticity are sequentially blended prior to resid addition. Such incremental reduction and sequential blending have been found to provide a resulting low sulfur fuel oil blend that is both compatible and stable.

Disclosed are pour point depressants used in compositions and methods for achieving the cold flow properties of synthetic feedstock derived from plastic.

Disclosed herein is a fuel additive comprising a mixture of (a) one or more fatty acid sorbitan esters and (b) one or more fatty acid monoesters of a polyol, wherein the one or more fatty acid sorbitan esters are present in an amount of about 0.05 wt. % to about 50 wt. %, based on the weight of the fuel additive, and the one or more fatty acid monoesters of a polyol are present in an amount of about 99.95 wt. % to about 50 wt. %, based on the weight of the fuel additive. Also disclosed is a fuel composition comprising a major amount of a fuel and minor amount of the fuel additive.

An organomodified silicone material is shown and described herein. The organomodified silicone provides a material that can be used as an additive in a fuel oil, e.g., diesel fuel. The organomodified silicone acts as both a defoamer and a dehazer in a fuel oil.

Polymeric compositions obtainable by free-radical polymerization of at least two different alkyl (meth)acrylates in the presence of at least one ethylene-vinyl ester copolymer, the alkyl (meth)acrylates used being a mixture comprising alkyl (meth)acrylates having linear C.sub.12- to C.sub.60-alkyl radicals and different alkyl (meth)acrylates having linear C.sub.1- to C.sub.11-alkyl radicals and/or branched C.sub.4- to C.sub.60-alkyl radicals and/or cyclic C.sub.5- to C.sub.20-alkyl radicals. The use of such polymeric compositions as pour point depressants for crude oils, mineral oils or mineral oil products.

The technology described herein relates to anti-agglomerants suitable for use in preventing, inhibiting, or otherwise modifying the agglomeration of gas hydrates in crude hydrocarbon streams. The technology relates to anti-agglomerant additives, additive formulations, compositions containing such anti-agglomerant additives and additive formulations, and methods and processes of using such anti-agglomerant additives and additive formulations in preventing, inhibiting, or otherwise modifying agglomeration of gas hydrates.

A composition is provided that includes a carbonaceous feed material to be combusted to generate an off-gas and an identifier. The identifier is associated with a predetermined composition, characteristic or property of the feed material or the off-gas.

In order to develop a high combustion heat and stable bio-oil for safer transportation. The present invention discloses a low carbon bio-oil, selected from the group consisting of a thermo-chemical oil product, a fatty acid containing bio-oil and a bio-alcohol. The invention also discloses a preparation method of preparing the low carbon bio-oil.