Fuel additives and fuel containing soluble platinum group metal compounds anduse in internal combustion engines
CA 1305607 C · Owner: Bowers, Wayne E. · Inventors: Sprague, Barry N.; Bowers, Wayne E.
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The invention provides a gasoline and diesel fuel additive composition comprising solutions of a fuel-soluble platinum group metal compound in a solvent miscible in the diesel, the platinum group metal complex being present in an amount sufficient to supply from 0.01 to 1.0 parts per million of the platinum group metal when added to a predetermined amount of fuel. Preferred solvents are oxygenated hydrocarbons such as ethanol, tetrahydrofuran, and methyl tertiary butyl ether and will preferably be employed in amounts of less than 5% of the weight of the gasoline to provide oxygen and the metal at a weight ratio of from 1,000:1 to 100,000:1. Expecially preferred compounds are those of the …
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- Granted July 28, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 28, 2009.
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