Combustion chamber deposits accumulate in a new gasoline engine and can result in an octane requirement increase (ORI) of as much as 8 to 10 octane numbers. In some cases, a higher octane fuel is ...

Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to phase down, and perhaps out, use of a suspected carcinogen that refiners have added to gasoline since the 1970s. An octane booster, ...

BASF SE BASFY recently announced the upcoming launch of its next-generation Keropur Gasoline Performance Additive Series, geared to meet and exceed the newly revised U.S. TOP TIER+ detergent gasoline ...

Gasoline additives ensure that a car's engine runs properly. Otherwise, the engine will knock – and you'll be knocking on your mechanic's door holding a whole bunch of your favorite dollars. But ...

At the beginning of the year, most people had never heard of MTBE, let alone paid it any attention. But by the end of 1997, many Tahoe residents had become familiar with the controversial fuel ...

Twenty years ago, a group of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) established the voluntary TOP TIER™ standard to enhance fuel detergency and optimize engine performance. Recognizing the ...

According to Chevron Products Company, its new PurEscape Performance Optimizer additive is designed to boost the power of gasoline engines without impacting fuel economy According to Chevron Products ...

Peel the lobbyist-encrusted layers off the "gasoline additive" debate, and you have one of the most complex, convoluted and economically destructive examples of pork-barrel politics ever concocted.

Lead was added to organic gasoline compounds to increase the fuel's resistance to pre-ignition from the 1920s through its banning in 1996. Lead exposure reached its peak in the 1960s. Scientists ...