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TK Fuels has developed a fuel-borne catalyst which, it says, can reduce NOx and hydrocarbons and improve fuel efficiency by an average of 8%.

The company adds that the savings provided by Clear mXt have been established over a year's worth of road-testing by a number of hauliers across the UK. "This product definitely works. We have saved 8-12% across the board, and are now dedicated to using Clear mXt for the long term," says Darren Jeavons, MD of Jeavons Eurotir.

Tests have also  been conducted by engineers at Birmingham University. "The significant reduction in emissions that we saw in controlled tests was amazing in respect of the tiny amount of solution added," says Dr Athanasios Tsolakis who led the project.

Clear mXt is a nano-fuel solution developed through use of molecular Xenogenic fuel technology. It works by reducing the electrostatic forces that are built up by the flow of fuel through hoses, causing fuel clusters and ultimately incomplete combustion to occur.

When Clear mXt is added to fuel, the intermolecular forces are reduced, a process which releases previously trapped fuel molecules, thus enabling a more efficient combustion.

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Volvo has announced that it will test 14 trucks in Sweden powered by Dimethylether (DME). The fuel comes from the gasification of biomass or raw fossil materials.

This gas is then catalysed to form DME. For the assessment, the trucks' engines will be converted by Volvo Powertrain in Malmö  before being leased out to trucking companies to be put through their paces in normal operating conditions.