To provide a composition for a heat cycle system, which comprises a working fluid for heat cycle which has a low global warming potential and high stability, and which can replace R410A, and a heat cycle system employing the composition. A composition for a heat cycle system, which comprises a working fluid for heat cycle containing trifluoroethylene, and a stabilizer for preventing deterioration of the working fluid for heat cycle, such as an oxidation resistance-improving agent, a heat resistance-improving agent or a metal deactivator, and a heat cycle system employing the composition for a heat cycle system.

Selected comb polymers contain specified amounts of macromonomer and nitrogen-containing (meth)acrylates. Lubricant compositions can contain such comb polymers. The selected comb polymers can be used as solubilizers in lubricant compositions, especially in engine oil (EO) compositions.

A lubricant additive concentrate containing 30 to 80 mass % oil of lubricating viscosity and from 20 to 70 mass % of additive; wherein from 30 to 90 mass % of the additive is (i) hybrid overbased colloidal detergent derived from sulfonate surfactant and hydroxybenzoate surfactant; and (ii) polyalkenyl succinimide dispersant derived from a polyalkene having a number average molecular weight (M.sub.n) of from 1300 to 2500 daltons, and wherein the mass ratio of polyalkenyl succinimide dispersant (ii) to hybrid overbased colloidal detergent (i) in the lubricant additive is from 25:1 to 1:1.

A process for producing a borated polyalkenyl succinimide dispersant composition in which the boron is incorporated primarily as cyclic metaboric acid moieties and the equivalents of boron incorporated per equivalent of nitrogen in the succinimide carrier is greater than 2; in which process a slurry of orthoboric acid is added to a polyalkenyl succinimide to form a reaction mixture, which reaction mixture is then heated under conditions (at a temperature and pressure and for a time) sufficient to remove from the reaction mixture from about 0.8 to about 1.2 moles of water of reaction per mole of boric acid charged.

A blend for lubricating a surface includes a lubricant and a polyepoxide co(ter)polymer additive mixed with the lubricant. The polyepoxide co(ter)polymer additive includes a first block having monomer M.sub.1 and a second block having monomer M.sub.2. The first monomer M.sub.1 includes hexene oxide, HO, or octene oxide, OO, and the second monomer M.sub.2 includes propylene oxide, PO.

A compound represented by the following general formula (B1). Further disclosed is a corrosion inhibitor (B) containing one or more selected from the compound represented by the following formula (B1). Further disclosed is a lubricant composition containing an ionic liquid (A) and the corrosion inhibitor (B). The compound and the corrosion inhibitor are excellent in stability in any of a high vacuum, a low-temperature environment, a high-temperature environment, and an ordinary temperature-ordinary pressure environment, and the lubricant composition containing the corrosion inhibitor is excellent in metal corrosion resistance, solubility, and low evaporability. In the general formula (B1), M is an alkali metal and RB11 is an alkylene group having 1 to 19 carbon atoms.

To provide a composition for a heat cycle system having favorable lubricating properties and comprising a working fluid for heat cycle which has a low global warming potential and which can replace R410A and a heat cycle system employing the composition. A composition for a heat cycle system comprising a working fluid for heat cycle containing trifluoroethylene, and a refrigerant oil (for example, an ester refrigerant oil, an ether refrigerant oil, a polyglycol refrigerant oil or a hydrocarbon refrigerant oil), and a heat cycle system employing the composition for a heat cycle system.

The invention relates to the use of specific quaternised nitrogen compounds which are also subjected to specific transesterification or amidation, as a fuel and lubricant additive or kerosene additive, such as in particular as a detergent additive, for decreasing or preventing deposits in the injection systems of direct-injection diesel engines, in particular in common rail injection systems, for decreasing the fuel consumption of direct-injection diesel engines, in particular of diesel engines having common rail injection systems, and for minimizing the power loss in direct-injection diesel engines, in particular in diesel engines having common rail injection systems. The invention further relates to the use as an additive for petrol, in particular for operation of DISI engines.

An ionic liquid composition having the following generic structural formula: ##STR00001##
wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, and R.sup.4 are equivalent and selected from hydrocarbon groups containing at least three carbon atoms, and X.sup. is a phosphorus-containing anion, particularly an organophosphate, organophosphonate, or organophosphinate anion, or a thio-substituted analog thereof containing hydrocarbon groups with at least three carbon atoms. Also described are lubricant compositions comprising the above ionic liquid and a base oil, wherein the ionic liquid is dissolved in the base oil. Further described are methods for applying the ionic liquid or lubricant composition onto a mechanical device for which lubrication is beneficial, with resulting improvement in friction reduction, wear rate, and/or corrosion inhibition.

A fully-formulating lubricating composition comprising an oil of lubricating viscosity; an ionic tetrahedral borate compound including a tetrahedral borate anion having a boron atom with two bidentate di-oxo ligands both being a linear C18-tartrimide; a first dispersant comprising a conventional ammonium substituted polyisobutenyl succinimide compound having a polyisobutenyl number average molecular weight of 750 to 2,500; a second dispersant comprising an ammonium substituted polyisobutenyl succinimde compound having an N:CO ratio of 1.8 and a polyisobutylenyl number average molecular weight of 750 to 2,500, wherein one or more of the first dispersant and the second dispersant are in cationic form. The fully formulated lubricating composition including one or more performance additives.