Techron is a patented
fuel additive
Petrol additives increase petrol's octane rating or act as corrosion inhibitors or lubricants, thus allowing the use of higher compression ratios for greater efficiency and power. Types of additives include metal deactivators, corrosion inhib ...
developed by
Chevron Corporation
Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation. The second-largest direct descendant of Standard Oil, and originally known as the Standard Oil Company of California (shortened to Socal or CalSo), it is headquartered in S ...
and sold in its fuel operations (including
Texaco
Texaco, Inc. ("The Texas Company") is an American Petroleum, oil brand owned and operated by Chevron Corporation. Its flagship product is its Gasoline, fuel "Texaco with Techron". It also owned the Havoline motor oil brand. Texaco was an Indepe ...
and
Caltex
Caltex is a petroleum brand name of Chevron Corporation used in the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, and Southern Africa. It is also the brand name of non-Chevron petroleum companies in some countries (such as New Zealand, and previously ...
). It contains a polyether amine-based detergent, which is purported to dissolve deposits in automotive engines and prevent them from building up. Chevron released Techron as an additive in 1981, and began including it in all of their gasoline products in 1995. It is still available as a concentrate today.
The
Chevron Cars
The Chevron Cars are anthropomorphic vehicles who were part of an advertising campaign of the Chevron Corporation consisting of television spots, print ads, billboards, and toy cars available at Chevron retail locations.
History
Their debut in ...
debuted in 1995 and were used to advertise the additive.
Components
Techron consists of five components:
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Distillates
Distillation, or classical distillation, is the process of separating the components or substances from a liquid mixture by using selective boiling and condensation, usually inside an apparatus known as a still. Dry distillation is the heati ...
, hydrotreated light at 40-70% weight
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Stoddard solvent at 15-40% weight
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Solvent naphtha
White spirit (AU, UK & Ireland)Primarily in the United Kingdom and Australia. In New Zealand "white spirit" can also refer to Coleman fuel (white gas). or mineral spirits (US, Canada), also known as mineral turpentine (AU/NZ), turpentine substitu ...
(petroleum), light aromatic at 5-10% weight
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1,2,4-trimethylbenzene at 1-5% weight
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Polyetheramine (PEA) (
detergent
A detergent is a surfactant or a mixture of surfactants with cleansing properties when in dilute solutions. There are a large variety of detergents, a common family being the alkylbenzene sulfonates, which are soap-like compounds that are more ...
),
polyether
In organic chemistry, ethers are a class of compounds that contain an ether group—an oxygen atom connected to two alkyl or aryl groups. They have the general formula , where R and R′ represent the alkyl or aryl groups. Ethers can again be c ...
amines at 20-49% weight
Predecessor
"Techroline" was the predecessor to Techron. The company claimed it could control combustion-chamber deposits in cars, as well as keep their fuel-intake systems clean.
See also
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List of automotive fuel brands
This is a list of notable automotive fuel retailers ("petrol" or "gasoline", " diesel", etc.) and their controlling oil companies.
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* Parent company
** Children ...
References
External links
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Motor Gasolines Technical Reviewon Chevron website (2009)
Chevron Unveils New Gasolines With "Techron"at Chevron Press Release Archives (15 May 1995)
Chevron Techron® Concentrate Plus Fuel System Cleaneron Chevron website (archived 17 Oct 2006)
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Petroleum products
Polyethers
Amines
Chevron Corporation brands
Texaco
Fuel additives