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2. Top Tier Detergent Gasoline - Wikipedia

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   Top Tier Detergent Gasoline. Top Tier Detergent Gasoline and Top Tier Diesel Fuel are performance specifications and trademarks designed and supported by several automakers. [1] BMW, General Motors, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford, Acura / Honda, Toyota, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Navistar, Audi, and Volvo support the gasoline standard, while ...

3. 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 ...

4. Diesel fuel - Wikipedia

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   A tank of diesel fuel on a truck. Diesel fuel, also called diesel oil, heavy oil (historically) or simply diesel, is any liquid fuel specifically designed for use in a diesel engine, a type of internal combustion engine in which fuel ignition takes place without a spark as a result of compression of the inlet air and then injection of fuel.

5. 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 ...

6. Winter diesel fuel - Wikipedia

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   In North America, gas stations offer two types of diesel fuel – according to ASTM D975 [5] these are named No. 1 and No. 2 fuel. No. 1 fuel (similar to kerosene) has a natural CFPP of -40 °C but it is more expensive than No. 2 fuel. Adding No. 1 fuel will lower the CFPP of No. 2 fuel – adding 10% will lower the CFPP temperature by about 5 ...

7. List of gasoline additives - Wikipedia

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   Fuel dyes, most common: Solvent Red 24; Solvent Red 26; Solvent Yellow 124; Solvent Blue 35; Fuel additives in general Ether and other flammable hydrocarbons have been used extensively as starting fluid for many difficult-to-start engines, especially diesel engines; Nitromethane, or "nitro", is a high-performance racing fuel

8. 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 ...

9. Fuel polishing - Wikipedia

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   Fuel polishing. Fuel polishing is the technical cleaning process used to remove or filter microbial contamination from oil and hydrocarbon fuel in storage. It is essentially the removal of water, sediment and microbial contamination from such fuels as diesel, red diesel and biodiesel. This fuel contamination, also known as 'fuel bugs', or ...