Additives represent 15 to 20 percent of a gallon of oil with the balance being high-quality base oil. Additive packages play a key role in helping to keep an engine clean and protected from varnish ...

It's easy for the uninitiated to think that oil is oil, no matter what type of engine it's going into. After all, it's only meant to lubricate the internal components of an engine. Well, all oils ...

The new Chevron Delo 600 ADF with OMNIMAX heavy duty engine oil is designed to help better protect the diesel engine and aftertreatment systems. Engine oil, lubricants and coolants maker Chevron ...

Aftermarket additives are a popular off-the-shelf item at truck stops and parts counters, but many of the necessary additives already are formulated in the diesel engine oils directly from the ...

Most fleets would confess to using diesel fuel additives from time to time, most likely in the winter to prevent gelling. But there are fleets, lots of them it seems, that regularly treat their fuel ...

Snake oil. Mouse milk. Whiffle dust. Take your pick — few products have earned such unflattering sobriquets as aftermarket motor-oil additives. And for the very good reason that these promised ...

The majority of low sulphur automotive diesel fuels marketed today are treated with an additive to enhance the lubricity of the base fuel. Field experience has shown that in order to achieve the full ...

Many of us try to eat right and have a well-balanced diet. We eat good foods and try to keep ourselves in good shape. Most of us benefit from taking vitamin supplements to boost certain areas of our ...

This article is the second of two articles drafted to define what chemistries are needed in petroleum diesel fuel additives in order to create the best possible additive products to insure optimum ...

Steam did the heavy lifting of the Industrial Revolution. Then, at the beginning of the 20th century, diesel began to take over the load and to expand into uses that steam wouldn’t have reached, from ...

State environmental regulators have approved an additive for biodiesel that addresses a nagging emissions issue with the vegetable oil-based fuel. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality said ...