HappyFuel fuel stabilizer offers improvements in oxidation stability over conventional fuel stabilizers, and includes components that 1) bond with gasoline compounds to prevent evaporation of low-end components (vapor pressure suppressants), 2) form a layer along the engine metal that prevents condensed water from corroding the metal (corrosion inhibitors/lubricants), 3) prevent corroded metal ions from destabilizing gasoline compounds into resin, which can hinder fuel injection components (antioxidants/chelating agents); and, 4) scavenge water to prevent water deposits at the bottom of the tank, limiting biological activity. HappyFuel’s formulation addresses oxidation, lubrication, vapor pressure suppression, and water scavenging, thereby addressing the issues of fuel storage from all mechanistic ends.
HappyFuel necessarily includes carefully-selected vapor pressure suppressants to prevent the loss of low-end hydrocarbons from the fuel. Low-end hydrocarbons help keep any formed resins in the fuel more soluble and the fuel less viscous, thus it is advantageous to the overall stability to prevent them from evaporating. In older equipment and older vehicles requiring long term fuel storage, evaporating of these low-end hydrocarbons is of particular issue due to the caps and seals of the tanks often being less robust than modern caps and seals, so more of these low-end components can evaporate. This issue can become even worse when storage conditions are in warm, humid climates. When low-end components evaporate from the fuel, the pressure in the tank increases and the more-volatile low-end components can more readily leak out from the seals and caps. As storage temperatures eventually decrease, pressure inside the tank falls and draws in air in order to equilibrate, thereby introducing both oxygen and atmospheric water into the tank. The vapor pressure suppressants selected for HappyFuel effectively inhibit these low-end components from evaporating.
In HappyFuel the vapor pressure suppressants as well as the antioxidants act as a lubricants. Being larger molecules than the low-end hydrocarbon components, they not only solubilize them to prevent them from evaporating, but their structures are designed in a way that allows their functional groups to better form a “boundary layer” between the storage tank and the other fuel components. These designed functional groups fit into the storage tanks’ metal imperfections (known as asperities), thereby preventing any absorbed water from settling into these high-charge density areas that are particularly vulnerable to corrosion.
Additionally, and most importantly, HappyFuel includes antioxidants that limit the reactivity of atmospheric oxygen with the fuel. The antioxidants functionally serve as a chelating agents as well as lubricants. The antioxidants were selected to have two main properties: 1) be non-corrosive and, 2) be “non-hydrolysable” (non-reactive with water). Conventional fuel stabilizing antioxidants are highly susceptible to hydrolysis – and those used in HappyFuel are not. Water, that is inevitably absorbed into the fuel as a result of environmental factors discussed above, reacts with many conventional antioxidants, changing their composition and limiting or eliminating their ability to function as antioxidants. The use of non-hydrolysable antioxidants, like those found in HappyFuel, is critical to the longevity of the fuel.
The presence of these antioxidants in the fuel is to function as reducing agents for reactive metal cations. Many free metal cations are introduced to the fuels through exposure to various metal surfaces in prior processing, transport, or storage. These and any existing products of prior corrosion often contain free metal cations which increase instability of the fuel over time. For example, fully oxidized metal cations can attract formed fouling agents and cause them to agglomerate into gums/resins. The antioxidants described above keep these free metal cations in their reduced state for as long as possible, thereby extending the overall fuel stability.
The last parts of the overall HappyFuel formula are water scavengers. Gasoline when in contact with air introduces reactive oxygen as well as water from the atmosphere. When fuels are stored, fuel components which are naturally hygroscopic (readily absorb moisture) inevitably absorb water into the fuel itself. Reaction with water results in the hydrolysis of present ester groups causing an increase in the acid value of the bulk fuel composition. Increased acid value can increase the corrosion potential of the fuel. Water is also an integral component in facilitating biological growth. As microbial organisms produce and utilize enzymes in their normal metabolic pathways, these organisms digest fuels resulting in detrimental changes in the bulk fuel composition (sludge formation). Therefore, the use of effective water scavengers (drying agents) is necessary. Using HappyFuel, Premium Fuel stabilizer will extend the life of your fuel.