Patent ID: 6716258
Filing Date: 2004-04-06
Classification: C10L

Abstract:
A diesel fuel composition comprising a major amount of a base distillate fuel containing no more than 10 wt % olefins, and having a T30 temperature in the range of about 250 to 280Â° C. and an additive for reducing particulate emissions in proportions sufficient to provide the diesel fuel composition with a T30 in the range of 203 to 250Â° C., the additive being at least one chemical component other than that generated in a refinery process stream and which component is miscible with the base distillate fuel in the aforesaid proportions and wherein the additive is selected from the group consisting of (a) alkane or alkanes, (b) ester or esters, (c) ether or ethers, and mixtures of (b) and (c).