Oils containing a triacylglycerol polyol ester and a non-glycerol polyol ester are described, as well as methods of making such oils. Methods for improving lubrication properties of a vegetable oil also are described.

Oils, particularly petroleum oils may be removed from water, from beaches and from wildlife, by contacting the oils with a collector comprising granular polyurethane particles substantially devoid of cellular structure. Preferably the collector particles are of a jagged, spiny, cragged nature. When applied to an oil contaminant, the collector particles agglomerate the oil into a gel which can be skimmed or otherwise removed easily.

An adsorbent for oils which is made of a foam substance consisting of 5 - 90 percent by weight of a synthetic resin insoluble in water as well as the oil and 10 - 95 percent by weight of an inorganic filler and having a bulk density of less than 1.

The transformer oils of improved resistivity are prepared by adding an effective quantity of a carbonyl containing compound particularly an aldehyde or ketone to a conventional transformer oil.

Lubricant base oils are made up essentially of 2-15% by weight of a total aromatics content, greater than 60% by weight of isoparaffins and monocyclic naphthenes in total, more than 30% by weight of alkylbenzenes in the total aromatics content and smaller than 4% by weight of tricyclic and tetracyclic aromatics in the total aromatics content. The base oil has great viscosity index, small pour point, high oxidative stability and heat stability and sufficient capability to dissolve sludge.

This invention relates to a process for the production of lubricating oils having a viscosity index of at least 120 and a pour point of at least -45.degree. C. by (a) oligomerizing a mixture of C5-C20 1-olefins comprising at least 2.6% w/w of 1-decene and at least 6% w/w of 1-hexene in the presence of a catalyst. The lubricating oil so formed may be hydrogenated in the presence of hydrogen to improve the oxidation stability thereof. The process is particularly suited to olefins feeds produced du...

Cooking oils which have a reduced tendency to produce offensive odors when heated to frying temperatures are claimed. The oils are refined, bleached and deodorized unsaturated vegetable oils, e.g. soybean and canola and from 0.1% to 5% refined and bleached, but not deodorized sunflower seed oil. The sunflower seed oil contains terpenes which mask the fishy, painty or acrid odor and improves the oil flavor on aging.

An organopolysiloxane of the formula ##STR1## in which x=0 to 500, y=5 to 500, z=5 to 500, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 independently of one another, represent a saturated and/or unsaturated, optionally also branched alkyl radical having 1 to 4 C atoms, and/or an aryl radical having 6 to 9 C atoms, which may also be optionally alkyl-substituted, R.sub.7 represents an alkyl radical having 6 to 18 C atoms, and in which in each case at least 3% of the radicals bonded to S...

A hydrofining process (preferably hydrovisbreaking process) comprises contacting a substantially liquid hydrocarbon-containing feed stream, which contains Ramsbottom carbon residue and materials boiling in excess of about 1000.degree. F. at atmospheric conditions, with a free hydrogen-containing gas and a catalyst composition comprising at least one catechol compound of molybdenum. Preferably the catechol compound of molybdenum is prepared by reaction of a compound comprising molybdenum and oxyg...

A hydrotreating (hydrovisbreaking) process comprises the step of contacting under suitable reaction conditions (A) a substantially liquid hydrocarbon-containing feed stream which contains more than 0.1 weight-% Ramsbottom carbon residue, (B) a free hydrogen-containing gas and (C) a catalyst composition comprising alkyl molybdate and/or molybdenum sulfonate.