Scientists discovered how to reduce carbon monoxide in fuel combustion products by 30%
Russian researchers created membranes for the production of high-octane fuel additives, which will allow reducing the carbon monoxide content in combustion products by 30 per cent in the future, TASS reports with reference to the press service of the National Technology Initiative Project Support Fund (Russian Federation)
“Scientists of the Competence Centre of the National Technology Initiative ‘Digital Materials Science: New Materials and Substances’ of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University and the Institute of Macromolecular Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences will improve the production process of high-octane fuel additives by using special membranes, which will allow for a 30 per cent reduction of carbon monoxide in combustion products,” the organisation stated.
Materials based on aromatic polyamidoimides will increase the efficiency of methanol-containing liquids separation in the production of high-octane fuel additives. Due to the better purification of raw materials from components of different stages of oil refining and saturation with oxygen-containing compounds, ‘such additives will contribute to the completeness of fuel combustion and reduce the share of carbon monoxide in combustion products’, the organisation added.
“Oxygen-containing high-octane additives with strong antiknock resistance can be effectively used in petrol instead of aromatic compounds, which will lead to a reduction in the content of benzapyrene in exhaust gases, as well as a decrease in carbon formation in the engine,” the leading researcher at the Institute of Macromolecular Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Svetlana Kononova, noted.
