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Meaning of "octane number"

octane number: a measure of the quality or performance of gasoline or fuel, specifically regarding its resistance to knocking or pinging during combustion. A higher octane number indicates a higher resistance to knocking and is desirable for high-performance engines. It determines the fuel's ability to ignite under pressure without premature detonation
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  • A measure of the antiknock properties of an automobile fuel; isooctane having an octane number of 100, a fuel with the same antiknock properties as a mixture of 90% isooctane and 10% heptane having an octane number of 90.

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How the octane number of petrol is increased.
Unleaded petrol with higher octane number.
The octane number of the cut is considerably improved.
These characteristics include the octane number.
Upgrade the octane number of naphtha.
This leads to a significant loss in octane number.
The question of the octane number has no environmental relevance.
A good quality fuel has a good octane number.
The octane number of gasoline is a measure of its resistance to knock.
It may constitute a high octane number gasoline.
The octane number of gasoline denotes its resistance to detonation.
It is the equivalent to the octane number of gasoline.
The octane number can be.
Additives for raising the octane number in petrol.
This high octane number can be accomplished under conventional reforming conditions.

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O for improving the octane number.
Road octane number.
Method and apparatus for measuring octane number.
Research octane number.
Use automotive gasoline that has a pump octane number of.
The octane number.
Gasoline yields decrease whereas octane number increases.
Minimum octane number requirements prevent engine knocking and ensure drivability.
The quality of a gasoline is partially dependent on its octane number.
The octane number of the effluents from the two reactors is also measured.
Process for producing gasoline with an improved octane number.
The octane number of such a gasoline is very strongly linked to its olefins content.
Does not modify octane number.
One aim of catalytic reforming is to obtain hydrocarbons with an increased octane number.
Problem due to the improvement in octane number in gasoline cuts.
The hydrogenation of the benzene in a reformate results in a loss in the octane number.
Refuel using petrol of the prescribed octane number as soon as possible.
This dimerization will be reflected in the effluent by a reduction of the octane number.
Both of these processes raise the octane number of the substance.
An important method for oil refinery factory to increase light fraction octane number.
Refuel with petrol with the specified octane number as often as possible.
Process for deep desulphurization of cracking gasolines with a small loss of octane number.
Process for producing a hydrocarbon cut of high octane number by etherification of olefins.
The research octane number and the engine octane number for gas engines.
It contributes a large quantity of product at a high blending octane number.
This treatment is intended to increase the octane number of the respective fraction.
Such a process would be desirable since saturation of olefins greatly affects the octane number.
A gasoline fraction of high motor octane number and low olefin content is thus obtained.
Refuel as soon as possible with petrol of the prescribed octane number.
The gasoline produced has a much lower octane number than that from catalytic cracking.
What determines the quality of the gasoline is the octane number.
High octane number composition useful as fuel for internal combustion and controlled ignition engine.
It may first require catalytic reforming to improve the octane number.
This invention relates to improving the octane number of light reformate from a catalytic reforming unit.
Gasoline additives specially formulated for increasing the octane number of gasoline.

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