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2. Top Tier Detergent Gasoline - Wikipedia

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   To be certified as Top Tier, a gasoline must pass a series of performance tests that demonstrate specified levels of: 1) deposit control on intake valves; 2) deposit control on fuel injectors; 3) deposit control on combustion chambers; 4) prevention of intake-valve sticking. [4] Gasoline marketers agree when they sign on to Top Tier program ...

3. List of gasoline additives - Wikipedia

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   The EPA also regularly reviews the health and net economic benefits of Clean Air Act policies. [9] The act also requires deposit control additives (DCAs) be added to all petrol. This type of additive is a detergent additive that acts as a cleansing agent in small passages in the carburetor or fuel injectors.

4. Techron - Wikipedia

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   Techron. Techron is a patented fuel additive developed by Chevron Corporation and sold in its fuel operations (including Texaco and Caltex). It contains a polyether amine-based detergent, which is purported to dissolve deposits in automotive engines and prevent them from building up. Chevron released Techron as an additive in 1981, and began ...

5. Diesel exhaust fluid - Wikipedia

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   Diesel exhaust fluid (DEF; also known as AUS 32 and marketed as AdBlue[ 3 ]) is a liquid used to reduce the amount of air pollution created by a diesel engine. Specifically, DEF is an aqueous urea solution made with 32.5% urea and 67.5% deionized water. DEF is consumed in a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) that lowers the concentration of ...

6. Cetane improver - Wikipedia

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   Cetane improver. A cetane improver [′sē‚tān im′prüv·ər] is a chemical which has the effect of increasing a diesel fuel 's cetane number. A few examples are nitrates, nitroalkanes, nitrocarbonates and peroxides. One of the main cetane improver additives manufactured today is 2-ethylhexyl nitrate (CAS n°: 27247-96-7) [1] which starts ...

7. Cetane number - Wikipedia

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   cetane number = % n-cetane + 0.15(% isocetane)[2] Cetanenumber is an inverse function of a fuel's ignition delay, the time period between the start of ignition and the first identifiable pressure increase during combustion of the fuel. In a particular diesel engine, higher cetane fuels will have shorter ignition delay periods than lower cetane ...