Clean Boost Diesel

Today we have a new generation of electronically controlled, low emission, high speed and high horsepower diesel engines. The reason for this new technology is the need for diesel engines to meet the clean air acts of 1998 and 2002. They are accomplishing this by using electronic injectors and by changing the diesel fuel we are presently burning.

With this new generation of diesel engines you need to take precautions to properly maintain the engine. This includes installing a proper fuel / water separator along with using a proper fuel additive designed to meet the challenges for today’s electronic controlled engines. If you take these precautions it will save you costly down time and money.

In order to understand the 1994 version of diesel fuel criteria, we must go back to the 1970's. As a result of a growing demand for middle distillates, which include kerosene, jet fuel, #1 and #2 diesel fuel... refineries no longer simply distilled crude oil to make distillates, they resorted to catalytic cracking.

The difference between light, middle, and heavier fuels is the boiling ranges. The cat-cracking process breaks up heavier fuels so they will meet the specifications for the lighter products, the refineries made the investment to catalytically crack more crude. Today’s heating oil and diesel fuel that you buy are the product of severe catalytic cracking.

So what does this mean? Fuel that has been refined this way doesn’t want to stay in its new form. It wants to change back into something heavier. The heat of an engine raises the temperature of the fuel in the return lines, thereby accelerating the formation of particulates. In fact any energy that we put into today’s diesel and heating oil (regardless of sulfur content) speeds up the production of solids. These solids take many shapes and forms. They are typically sticky gums, varnishes and sludge's that will plug filters, strainers, nozzles, and injectors. In fact 93% of what clogs today’s filters is not dirt or algae, but it is the repolyermerization of the fuel. The microscopic particulates that form will grow larger and eventually clog your fuel system. Clean Boost will not only help this process from not happening, but at the same time reduce emissions and reduce fuel soots within the engine. Cleaner fuels mean longer running engines.

• Clean Boost helps the following in diesel engine application in our ever growing trucking Industry.
• Lower fuel consumption (ie. Better fuel efficiency)
• Cleaner exhaust emissions
• Lower maintenance requirements
• Fewer carbon particles in lubricating oil
• Carbon deposits in the combustion chamber are reduced
• Easier starts in cold weather

Testimonial Trucking Company:
 Clean Boost User Feedback
Smithfield Transportation: On the Benefits of Clean Boost
“While working on our environmental initiatives as a fleet and transportation group, our company's environmental team wanted to jump on board and help come up with new ideas. That's when one of our coordinators approached me and said there is a product on the market, and I've looked at several of them, it's a product I'd like to experiment with. So with a consolidated effort between the transportation department, truck shop management, and service tech, we started testing a product called Clean Boost. We ran tests for a period of months looking at the areas of fuel economy, cleanliness with our particulate matter emissions off of our trucks, the temperature of our truck engines, and for wear and tear.

“After a period of testing we found that our results were very positive. Clean boost is another product that we can add him to our cachet of environmental compliance. We found Clean Boost helps keep our engines running cooler, it reduces soot build up in the engines, and also, one of the most important things is that it cuts down on the truck's smoke or stack emissions which leads to which leads directly to better air quality.”
 
- Gordon Worrell Fleet Safety Manager, Smithfield Transportation
“Anytime you can burn cleaner you're going to save money on your engines, your engine wear, your component parts, component replacements. When you can maintain a better engine, you’re going to have less [preventive maintenance] to deal with. And if you can cut out a PM, you’re going to save even more money, and you can kick back to your bottom line.”
- Ruth Debrito Enviro. Coordinator, Smithfield Transportation
“By using Clean Boost, we have reduced spending for our 150 tractors by about $30,000. We have reduced the PMs required to keep our vehicles running. In lubricants we’ve saved $75,000. In the big picture, we’ve extended our equipment life. We now have tractors out there that have over 700,000 miles. If you or I were to get into one of them, we couldn't tell the difference between and new rig and this one, because they run great. If we were running a passenger car with 700,000 miles we'd be sitting in the junkyard.”

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The Transit Industry Demands Clean, Soot Free Buses - Clean Boost Delivers













Cleaning up our cities around the world has been of great concern for a longer, healthier life span as well as ensure a "green" environment. Clean Boost delivers this process by changing the environmental impact on the exhaust emissions in Buses and Transit Systems the world over.

Clean Boost not only saves transit companies thousands of dollars in fuel consumption, but at the same time... lowers fuel consumption through better fuel efficiency, cleaner exhaust emissions and lower maintenance requirements. Incomplete combustion leads to a host of problems in bus engines, including soot formation, carbon deposits, black smoke and corrosion. Transit and owner operators can reduce soot formation, extend maintenance intervals, and reduce the need for major component overhauls by using Clean Boost.

Some of the many benefits of a cleaner running transit with Clean Boost:

• Fewer carbon particles in lubricating oil
• Carbon deposits in the combustion chamber are reduced
• Easier starts in cold weather
• Allowing the busses to run cleaner, lube oils to last longer and to reduce emissions in our larger cities to help the Clean Air Act.

Why Use Clean Boost ?

Clean Boost™ fuel additives offers large fossil fuel consumers a simple, cost-effective approach to combat today's high petroleum prices and reduce operating costs, especially where incomplete combustion is a problem. The underlying cause can be high levels of asphaltenes in the bunker oil, which leads to loss of ignition or carbon burnout problems, that result in excess soot formation, carbon deposits, black smoke (particulates or DPM), cold end corrosion and fouling with sulfur (sulphur) or vanadium.

Clean Boost™ improves fuel efficiency and combustion efficiency, by liberating more of the fuel's chemical energy, in the flame zone of boilers, or during the power stroke of diesel engines. Soot formation is prevented and less fuel is wasted in the form of particulate emissions. Greenhouse gas (CO2) and acid rain gases (SO2 and SO3), soot (black smoke), carbon build-up and fouling, slagging and cold-end corrosion are all reduced, while engine and boiler performance improves. Turbochargers and exhaust gas boilers remain cleaner and require less maintenance and water washing.

Clean Boost™ reduces fuel consumption by 3 to 5% across a wide range of fossil fuels, from coal and heavy residual fuel oils to intermediate fuel oil blends, refined diesel fuels.

Clean Boost™ is effective in industrial boilers and diesel engines of all sizes and is used in marine shipping, power generation, mining, construction, ground transportation and wherever high fuel prices or compliance with emissions or opacity regulations is a concern.

Clean Boost™ Diesel does not affect normal diesel engine wear and it has no detrimental effects upon fuel characteristics.

Clean Boost™ is safe to use and it produces no harmful incremental emissions as a by-product, unlike many fuel additives. Clean Boost™ also reduces the volatile fraction of particulate emissions (PAH's) which can promote skin cancer in humans.

Secondary benefits of Clean Boost™ fuel treatment include better engine performance, extended equipment life and reduced maintenance costs, all with minimal disruption to normal engine or boiler operations. Soot formation and slagging on exhaust gas boilers is eliminated and time intervals between major overhauls of components, such as turbochargers, can be increased. Internal engine components, including pistons, rings, valves and fuel injector tips remain free of hard carbon deposits.

Winter Blend Fuels (Mileage and Performance Reduced):

With the weather beginning to cool in the United States and Canada, the formulation of gasoline is also beginning to change. Regulations require gasoline with lower emissions and pollution in hotter months (summer gasoline), but those rules don't apply during the winter in many areas, so refiners move back to a type of gasoline that is cheaper to produce.

September 15 was the day that gasoline requirements were eased in many areas (aka the date of the first increase in RVP [Reid Vapor Pressure])- however- since the change to cheaper winter gas is not mandated, stations don't need to sell out of fuel before purchasing winter gasoline. Basically, since there is no requirement, stations don't purchase winter gasoline until they run low, so depending on a stations volume, you may not be pumping winter gasoline just yet. This is especially true premium gasoline- stations likely still have summer blended premium on hand and thus you may notice if you use premium that your fuel economy hasn't yet taken a hit.

Others may have already noticed a small drop in fuel economy. Winter gasoline contains more butane, which costs less, but also evaporates at a quicker rate and is more volatile. The savings that refiners see are passed on to motorists, similar to when motorists see prices rise as refiners produce summer gas each spring. Since the weather grows cooler, the increase in volatility is permissible.

Normal RVP values look like this:
January-March RVP is 13.5+ in many areas
April-September RVP is 7.0-9.0 in many areas
September-December RVP is 11+ in many areas

Winter Blend Fuels information: Complements of Gas Buddy

We also manufacture gasoline additives (Clean Boost Maxx, Clean Boost Fuel Pills, Anti-Microbe and Clean Boost Octane Plus.) 

Clean Boost is a registered Trade Mark of Combustion Technologies