Established in 1984, Cost Effective Maintenance (CEM) provides cost effective methods to correct engine problems such as oil consumption, power loss, hard starting, smoke, poor fuel consumption, blow by and chronic overheating. In 2007, CEM were granted membership status with the Australian Government's Greenhouse Challenge Plus program, which requires members to commit to energy saving pursuits. Home About Us Solutions Products Case Studies News Links Smoke & Oil Consumption Chronic Overheating Power Loss & Poor Fuel Economy Hard Starting & Filthy Oil Prevention Maintenance Save on Repair Bills Performance/Economy FTC Decarboniser Cleanpower fuel Treatment Flushing Oil Concentrate AW10 Antiwear Maintenance Booklet bHIP Energy FOC & Cleanpower Value Pack FTC Decarbonizer Cleanpower Fuel Treatment Flushing Oil Concentrate AW10 Antiwear Discover The Secrets bHIP Energy Contact

FTC Decarbonizer

Does your engine suffer ANY of these?

  • Smoke
  • Glazed cylinders
  • Carboned up
  • Poor economy
  • Power loss
  • Hard starting
  • Blowby
  • Fuel Growths

FTC Decarbonizer is ideal for safely burning off cylinder glaze and carbon from combustion and exhaust spaces. Engines using FTC become totally free of hard carbon build up.

 No FTC Used

 

 FTC Treated

 

 

Very heavy carbon deposits have built up on the piston top land. The consequences are that the carbon will wear away the cylinder cross hatching AND/OR cause the piston to grab the liner

 

 23,000hrs life with very little wear! The cross hatch is fully intact, with way under 1 thou wear...fully reusable! Only 25% wear on piston ring faces!


FTC burns the fuel cleaner, and also burns away any existing carbon build up. So deposits do not build up.

 

Here the piston grabbed the liner...catastrophic results. The conrod broke, which also destroyed the whole block. It had to be thrown away instead of a rebuild.

For this engine, a rebuild costs around $1/4 million. Add the cost of a block, conrod and damaged parts, and you've got a very expensive exercise!!

You can't pre-book a rebuild on a failure & it'll take an extra 2 weeks in the queue. Lost mine production could cost an extra $460,000 for this unplanned event!

 

 Cylinder head as removed. (That's a little oil weeping out the injector hole.) That carbon is so soft, it can be wiped off with a rag to expose shiny metal.


Not only do combustion and exhaust spaces stay cleaner, but the oil quality is also much cleaner, because...

Cleaner combustion produces less soot.

Cleaner piston rings minimize contaminant blowby into the oil.

 

 The area marked is totally devoid of cross hatch. Those piston deposits "polished the bore", totally wearing away the machined cross hatch, causing blowby, smoke, oil use, power loss and an early rebuild!

 

 With a cleaner burn due to FTC use, just look how clean the exhaust system is! Unlike untreated engines, it does not look jet black...rather dark grey with a drier look!

 

 Here we have another expensive problem waiting for the owner. The carbon build up on this exhaust valve has started to cause the valve face to burn & pit. It will also reduce valve guide clearance, which may cause fatigue and a dropped valve...

 

 The FTC burn ensures that there is no problem with this valve from the same application and engine type as on the left. No valve pitting and no compression leak! It's not likely to break either.

 

 In this instance the valve did drop, and hammered the cylinder head and piston. How much further damage happens only depends on how quickly the engine is shut down...expensive!

 

 Apart from carbon control, FTC produces fuel efficiencies of 5-10%.

CEM supplies large open cut mining operations, and this lot will treat 20 million litres of diesel for their hard working mobile fleets. They'll save several $million a year!

 

FTC can correct smoke, power loss, heavy fuel consumption, blowby, oil dripping, hard starting; caused by glaze and/or carbon build up.

What causes carbon? Engines not working hard enough for long enough e.g. short runs, light loads, excessive idling, cool operating temperature, poor fuel quality.

Common applications: Most pleasure boats, site tippers, crane trucks and concrete trucks, but lots more, too.

FTC is ideal for running in new engines, and will also kill all diesel fuel growths. How many boating tragedies have been put down to fuel problems, and power loss? The big risk is, if you have fuel growths, it just takes a bit of rough water to stir them up and block fuel filters. You loose power at the time you need it most! Four wheel drivers and remote area travellers can face similar risks, and rough roads can quickly stir up tank bottoms and block fuel filters. Don't allow fuel growths to proliferate. Use FTC! It's toxic to all fuel growths.

Low Sulphur Diesel & fuel pump leaks. The recent introduction of low sulphur diesel has resulted in many diesel fuel pumps starting to leak. This occurs as a result of reducing the aromatic content of the diesel. Seals shrink as this occurs and if they have a bit of age, may develop cracks and leak. FTC increases the aromatic content of diesel by 500ppm, and reduces the incidence of pump leakage. It will assist in preventing seal leaks caused by reducing the sulphur. Seals that have started to leak, may not necessarily take up due to cracking.

FTC is dead easy to use. Simply add it to the fuel each fill (mix rate1:1600, double dose first) and drive your engine clean. There's no down time at all.

Fuel Efficiency and Greenhouse Gas Reductions

FTC achieves a faster fuel burn by creating a multiple flame front development, so will provide a fuel efficiency benefit even in new engines. The major part of CEM's business is supplying energy savings and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reductions for large open cut mining operations. This involves high cost, scientifically controlled and carefully monitored field trials to provide statistical validation. For every tonne of diesel burnt, three tonnes of carbon dioxide are produced! Large mining houses are committed to minimizing their GHG outputs, so it really is a win-win solution.

The high cost of such trials makes it uneconomical for us to provide this service to smaller operations, and until now, we have not promoted fuel cost reductions very strongly. However, our environmental commitment is a high priority (Our current GHG reduction is equivalent to removing 5000 cars from our roads), and it would be negligent not to promote this important benefit, at such a critical time in the escalating Greenhouse problem.

Imagine if worldwide we could cut GHG emissions by 7% (through this and other inititives), how much breathing space would that give us to implement clean energy technologies to replace fossil fuels?

Typical fleet average figures for mine mobile and highway trucks is 6 - 8% fuel saving. However, when combined with decarbonizing a dirty engine, the fuel saving benefit can be much more. It really depends on how much efficiency has been lost. Eg, an 800HP Caterpillar driving a 3 metre tub grinder recently reduced fuel use from 150L/hr to 93L/hr. That's clearly a function of RESTORING LOST EFFICIENCY.

How much should I buy?

  • Diesel up to 90HP 1L FTC
  • Diesel up to 150HP 2L FTC
  • Diesel up to 350 HP 5L FTC
  • Diesel up to 600HP 10L FTC
  • Larger or fleet use 20L or 200L FTC

May not be suitable for some older, worn petrol engines.