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Petrobras Podium gasoline is the world’s most advanced gasoline and it is appropriate for use in any gasoline vehicle. A few of its specific characteristics are better noticed when it is used to fuel high-performance vehicles. Podium is the gasoline that has the highest octane rating among all of those that are currently marketed in the world. The octane rating is the resistance gasoline has to self-ignition, which can lead to localized explosions, causing the loss of power and severe engine damage, depending on intensity and persistence.
Octane is one of the main gasoline components. Fuel with more octane (or a higher octane rating) has better combustion power and resists to high pressure levels inside the cylinders, without undergoing explosion (spontaneous air-gas mix burn) known as “pin strokes,” which sounds like metal beating and hinders the engine. Engine designers take fuel octane ratings into account, and they consider it to determine the compression rates, ignition advance curves, and injection time. Gasoline octane ratings are determined via the RON, MON, and IAD methods. The first evaluates the fuel’s resistance to explosion, when the engine is working at full load and at low rotations. Meanwhile, the MON method evaluates the gasoline’s resistance to explosion at full loads and high rotation. And, finally, the IAD is the average of the above.
The Petrobras Podium gasoline allows the engine manufacturer’s total designed power to be used, allowing faster overtaking and, thus, ensuring safer passing.
Because of its formulation and due to the special package of “dispersing detergent” additives, the Petrobras Podium gasoline keeps deposits from forming, ensuring the entire fuel system supply will remain clean and providing better operation and maximum protection to the engine.
This gasoline has extremely low benzene and sulfur content in its composition, allowing a reduction of up to 42% of the carbon monoxide (CO) emissions and, thus, it helps in environmental preservation. It was elaborated using the same technology as employed to develop the Petrobras gasoline the Williams Formula 1 team uses.
The Petrobras Podium gasoline is only available at Petrobras service stations in a few Brazilian cities.
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This product attends to the National Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Biofuel Agency (NPA) specifications, which are unique to the Brazilian market and have different equivalencies for the other countries.
If you would like more information about this product’s commercialization, Petrobras offers exclusive customer service channels to serve you.
Interested parties may contact the Company at (55 21) 3224 9901 or via e-mail at sac@petrobras.com.br.
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