Method for reducing emissions from or increasing the utilizable energy of fuel for powering internal combustion engines
CA 1340871 C · Owner: Bowers, Wayne E. · Inventors: Sprague, Barry N.; Epperly, Robert W.; Kelso, Danny T.
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The invention presented involves a method for reducing emissions from or increasing the utilizable energy of fuel for powering diesel, gasoline or gasohol internal combustion engines, the method comprising admixing with the fuel an additive which comprises a fuel-soluble, nonionic, organometallic platinum group metal coordination composition which is a) resistant to breakdown under ambient temperatures; b) does not contain a disadvaantageous amount of phosphorus arsenic, antimony or halides; and c) has a partition ratio sufficient to maintain preferential solubility in the fuel.
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- Granted January 4, 2000. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended January 4, 2017.
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