CHAPTER ONE

1.0       INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of Study

Agreeing to statistics that has been provided from U.S Energy Information Administration in 2007 annual report on rapid increase of demand for petroleum and gas production. World demand for oil is projected to increase by 37% over 2006 levels by 2030. It is because the oil is widely used in many industries such as transportation, manufacturing, polymers, shipment and others. Transportation consumes major amount of the energy and increase year by year. This growth has largely come from new demand for personal-use vehicles powered by internal combustion engines. There is endless need to reduce carbon emissions and problems encountered with biodiesel blends, such as fuel system corrosion, increased fuel foaming and water separation. Fuel additives are compounds put together to increase the quality and efficiency of the fuels used in motor vehicles through treatments. Cars and trucks are predicted to cause the highest demand in the transportation approaching to 75%. In other to reduce the consumption of fuel as well as improvement of gas produced during combustion, isopropyl alcohol (IPA) is used as an additive in the fuel.

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