I've been sent links to www.dipetane.net.. According to the website you add dipetane to your petrol or diesel and you get a 10-17percent efficiency increase and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
According to Wikipedia* it's a fuel enhancer that improves the quality of combustion of any liquid fuel and it reduces emissions of CO2 up to 25%, CO up to 9.5%, NOx from 28.8% and SOx from 19.9%.
So why aren't we all using it?
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update 9am, next day
* Apparently this link was to a Wiki user page rather than the Wiki proper and the information was 'commercial content' and so John Quiggin has had the information removed, so the link no longer works, see comments from John below. And I'm wondering whether the 'commercial content', as repeated in this blog post, is factually correct or not?
The thing about Dipetane is that it is completely different. It is not a detergent trying to 'wash out' carbons. It actually burns the carbon at the point of combustion. That's why it reduces your carbons and in doing so increases efficiency on mileage. It is completely different to adding one of a hundred 'detergent' products to your fuel.
Hello Jennifer,
We do not know each other but I am with WOSAT and I would like to respond to your question of whether or not Dipetane reduces emissions as Wikipedia stated.
And to the site admin, I hope I have posted within your rules! 😉
I was just doing research and found this link on Dipetane, forgive me if I have done anything to offend.
Here is the research, completed over a 10 year period:
http://dipetane.net/html/research_fuel_emissions.html
These are the stats:
# Dipetane lowers - Nitrous Oxides ( NOx ) 35% or more.
# Dipetane lowers - Carbon Dioxide 23% or more.
# Dipetane lowers - Carbon Monoxide 9% or more.
# Dipetane lowers - Particulates ( Smoke ) 61% or more.
# Dipetane fuel technology is safe for all engines.
Here is what Coca-Cola Ireland had to say about it:
Coca Cola Bottlers of Ireland - Report on Dipetane Performance In 1990, Pat wrote a letter of experience describing his use of Dipetane and what benefits he found. Over a 9 month period Coke found a 17% improvement in fuel economy.
http://dipetane.net/html/dipetane-results-Coca-Cola-Ireland.html
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Yes Jim, I thought that Quantam was intetesting. One thing they said was, fuel consumption was increased by 400% in the more aggressively driven car.
So my wife's little thing could jump from 6.9 L/100Km, to 27.6 L/100Km, if I jump in. In fact, I get slightly better economy, as I don't slow down as much, or as often, requiring power to accelerate again.
Me thinks that the ABC has moved a political program producer to Quantam, as the subjects had more political correctness than science in the treatment of the subjects.
Its encouraging to hear that you know your big end from your manifold pinxie.
Dont you worry yrself rog, I well know the difference between my head and my o-ring
Quantam last night featured a story on driving behaviour ( not by any means a rigorous experiment) which seems to suggest that staying put in heavy traffic as opposed to constantly changing lanes results in much lower fuel use and consequently lower CO2 emmissions.
The other lane does always seem to be moving faster......
It seems that the recommended rate for the additive is about 0.5% by volume. I cannot do any sums that would indicate a 25% reduction in CO2 emissions is achievable or even a fraction of that (try 0.25%). However, maybe I have missed something.
Only old engines Ender, and those that use rubber hoses and seals, modern motors are not affected by bio-diesel.
I've used additives in old Perkins without any issues.
rog - actually pinxi is correct. Biodiesel can affect rubber seals in certain diesel engines. It is recommended that all such be replaced with ones that are compatible with biodiesel before using it.
It is also a lot cleaner running.
What would you know about diesels pixie? Talk about ill informed..