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The Fuel Marking and Detection Industry
In the fuel business, smuggling, adulteration, tampering and dilution are widespread in many developing as well as industrialized countries. Not only do these commercial abuses reduce consumer welfare and government excise revenue, but the combustion of substandard fuels can also have a serious impact on public health. Additionally, it can cause irreparable damage to catalytic converters and engine components.
Where products of comparable quality have different prices, or consumers have trouble distinguishing products of different qualities, unscrupulous operators will always try to exploit the situation for illegal profits. Many countries have seen illegal practices in the retail fuel business-with operators adding lead to gasoline in Kazakhstan, adulterating diesel with lower-priced kerosene in Asia, smuggling low-priced fuels out of Nigeria into neighboring countries, and evading fuel taxes in Brazil.
Fuel distributors have attempted to combat this menace by marking fuel with color markers. The problem with color markers is firstly, they are visible, and therefore, a criminal knows when he has succeeded in removing it through the use of acids, or other trouble-free methods. Additionally, anyone who makes a concerted effort can find a color marker in a chemical inventory and thereby learn how to manufacture it.
The probability of detection in turn depends on the characteristics of the marker as well as the monitoring regime. This probability can be increased by introducing more accurate testing processes. This is where GFI-Petromark™ has made its innovative contribution to this challenge. Firstly, GFI's marker is injected on the molecular level and therefore cannot be altered. Additionally, GFI's mobile and stationary detection units have reached unprecedented levels of accuracy.
GFI's integral solutions can be implemented in any type
[of fuel], any time, and anywhere.
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