IP Library Granted Patent US 9,678,054
Granted Patent B2
US 9,678,054 · App. 14/116,668 · Granted Jun 13, 2017

Method of marking hydrocarbon liquids

Inventors: David Stubbs (Cleveland, GB); Duncan William John McCallien (County Durham, GB)
Assignee: JOHNSON MATTHEY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
G01N33/2882C10L1/003C10L1/1608C10L1/201C10L1/202C10L2230/16Y10T436/13
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Patent No.
US 9,678,054
App. No.
14/116,668
Granted
Jun 13, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

Method of marking a hydrocarbon liquid includes adding to the liquid, a tracer compound of Formula I or II: wherein at least one of R 1 -R 6 in Formula I and at least one of R 7 -R 14 in Formula II is selected from: i. a bromine or fluorine atom; ii. a partially or fully halogenated alkyl group; iii. a branched or cyclic C 4 -C 20 alkyl group; iv. an aliphatic substituent linking two positions selected from R 1 -R 6 in Formula I to one another or two positions selected from R 7 -R 14 in Formula II to one another; or v. a phenyl group substituted with a halogen atom, an aliphatic group or halogenated aliphatic group  and none of R 1 -R 6 and none of R 7 -R 14 being a sulphonate group or COOR 15 , where R 15 represents H, C 1 -C 20 alkyl, C 2 -C 20 alkenyl, C 2 -C 20 alkynyl, C 3 -C 15 cycloalkyl or aryl.

Claims (5)

1. A method of identifying a hydrocarbon liquid comprising the step of adding to said liquid, as a tracer compound, pentafluorobromobenzene;

and subsequently analysing a sample of a hydrocarbon liquid for the presence of said tracer compound to determine whether said sample is a sample of said marked hydrocarbon liquid.

2. A method according to claim 1 , wherein the tracer compound is added to the hydrocarbon liquid in such a quantity as to produce a final concentration in the liquid of from 1 to 500 ppbv.

3. A method according to claim 2 , wherein the tracer compound is added to the hydrocarbon liquid in such a quantity as to produce a final concentration in the liquid in the range from 1-100 ppbv.

4. The hydrocarbon liquid containing a tracer compound as in claim 1 at a concentration of from 1 to 500 ppbv.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 11, 2013
From: STUBBS, DAVID; MCCALLIEN, DUNCAN WILLIAM JOHN
To: JOHNSON MATTHEY PUBLICA LIMITED COMPANY
Reel/Frame 031758/0741 →
Priority Claims (1)
GB 1107870.6 · May 11, 2011 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20140120626A1 · May 1, 2014