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PURPOSE: To provide an additive composition for use in fuel that can improve the combustion efficiency of the fuel inside an engine when added to the fuel, by mixing an organic peroxide, a specified detergent, and a hydrocarbon solvent, in the additive composition. n CONSTITUTION: This additive composition can be obtained by mixing (A) 0.05-2 weight % of organic peroxide (e.g. di-tertiary butyl peroxide), (B) 0.1-25 weight % of at least one kind of detergent (e.g. tall oil fatty imidazoline) selected from the component group consisting of: (a) fatty amines, (b) ethoxylated and propoxylated derivatives of the component (a), (c) fatty diamines, (d) fatty imidazolines, (e) polymeric amines (and derivatives thereof, (f) combination of one or more selected from the components (a)-(e) with one or more carboxylic acids having from three to forty carbon atoms, and (C) preferably, 50-99.0 weight % of hydrocarbon solvent which is a heavy oil whose specific gravity (at 15.5 c) is about 0.8 (7 pond/gallon), flash point (measured by the Penskey-Martens method) 65-100 c, boiling point 230-375 c, and sulfur content 0.2 % and less. The additive composition will be added by 0.01-5% to fuels such as gasoline or Diesel fuel. n COPYRIGHT: (C)1989,JPO |