Techron is a patented
fuel additive developed by
Chevron Corporation 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 Independ ...
and
Caltex). It contains polyether amine (PEA) and polybutene amine (PBA), which are detergent additives 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 that debuted in 1995 were used to advertise the additive.
Components
Techron consists of five components:
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Distillates, hydrotreated light at 40-70% weight
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Stoddard solvent at 15-40% weight
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Solvent naphtha (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 Cleanliness, cleansing properties when in Concentration, dilute Solution (chemistry), solutions. There are a large variety of detergents. A common family is the alkylbenzene sulfonate ...
),
polyether 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
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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Products introduced in 1981
Products introduced in 1995
1981 establishments in the United States
Petroleum products
Polyethers
Amines
Chevron Corporation brands
Texaco
Fuel additives