What is Gasoline Additive?
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Gasoline additive, short for fuel additive, is designed to compensate for the inherent quality issues of fuel and the limitations in automotive mechanical manufacturing. It enables gasoline engines to overcome the cold shock effect and crevice effect, serving to remove carbon deposits from intake valves and fuel injectors. The composition and functions of gasoline additives can be categorized into: 1. Maintenance-type fuel additives: They envelop carbon deposit particles formed through oxidative condensation reactions at high temperatures, preventing them from growing larger; 2. Cleaning-type fuel additives: When carbon deposits accumulate on the surfaces of fuel injectors and intake valves, cleaning-type additives utilize surfactants to penetrate the pores of carbon deposits, disrupt their structure, segment and envelop the carbon particles, and dissolve them for expulsion through exhaust emissions.