Physical Properties

About RMC3000/3080 , The physical and chemical properties are listed in Table 1 C Physical Properties.

RMC3000/3080 is an organic manganese compound designed to boost octane levels in gasoline at an economical cost.  In addition, when used at very low levels in diesel fuel, it is a very effective smoke suppressant.  Scientists at Ethyl Corporation developed it in the 1950s to reduce common engine knock in automobiles.  The product has been manufactured and marketed by Ethyl for more than twenty years.  It has been sold in Canada from the outset, and is currently used in the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, as well as Central and South America.

RMC3000/3080 provides a number of scientifically documented environmental benefits while posing no harm to automotive emission systems or human health.  When added to gasoline at the refinery level, it helps reduce refinery emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that has been linked to global warming.  When used in unleaded gasoline, RMC3000/3080 can reduce exhaust pollutants such as oxides of nitrogen and carbon monoxide, known contributors to urban smog. The US EPA has acknowledged that vehicles using unleaded gasoline containing RMC3000 average 15-20% lower tailpipe emissions of oxides of nitrogen (NOx).

RMC3000/3080 is one of the most comprehensively tested fuel additives in history.  When used as directed it is completely compatible with modern emission control systems, and has no known adverse human health effects.  The long-term effect of manganese exposure has been studied for decades and continues.  These studies, including one completed in 1998 by the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) of North Carolina, support the existing scientific evidence that RMC3000/3080 poses no health risk.

Because RMC3000/3080 is a fuel additive, a number of government and environmental regulations apply to the product's continued safe use and distribution.  Over the last 10 years, Ethyl Corporation has worked with governments around the world and has sponsored numerous scientifically designed vehicle and personal exposure analyses through internal and independent test facilities. Today, scientific data accumulated over more than 10 million miles of driving proves RMC3000/3080 is safe and effective for use in unleaded gasoline and diesel fuels.

RMC has developed RMC3000/3080 based formulations for a wide variety of applications. 

Some of these products are registered with the US EPA for domestic on-highway applications.  Others are intended for similar use in countries where gasoline octane quality is low, while others are specifically designed for high performance  off-road or racing applications.  Finally, with the imminent worldwide phase out of leaded gasoline, an opportunity has arisen for an RMC3000/3080 based formulation to provide protection against valve seat recession (VSR), in the very large number of vehicles, many of which are classics, which were designed to use leaded gasoline.  In the latter category, we have a formulation that is officially approved by the Federation of British Historic Vehicle Clubs.