Patent ID: 7572303

Claim:
A fuel composition comprising: a combustion improving amount of dimethyl carbonate, a combustion improving amount of at least one combustible compound containing at least one element selected from the group consisting of aluminum, boron, bromine, bismuth, beryllium, calcium, cesium, chromium, cobalt, copper, francium, gallium, germanium, iodine, iron, indium, lithium, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, niobium, phosphorus, potassium, palladium, rubidium, sodium, tin, zinc, praseodymium, rhenium, silicon, vanadium, strontium, barium, radium, scandium, yttrium, lanthanum, actinium, cerium, thorium, titanium, zirconium, hafium, praseodymium, protactinium, tantalum, neodylum, uranium, tungsten, promethium, neptunium, samarium, plutonium, ruthenium, osmium, europium, americium, rhodium, iridium, gadolinium, curium, platinum, terbium, berkelium, silver, gold, dysprosium, californium, cadmium, mercury, holmium, titanium, erbium, thulium, arsenic, antimony, ytterbium, selenium, tellurium, polonium, lutetium, astatine, mixture thereof, including organic and inorganic derivatives; optionally hydrogen or a hydrocarbon base fuel; wherein said fuel composition has a pH of from 4.5 to 10.5 and is a vapor phase composition characterized upon combustion as having a luminous reaction zone extending from surface of said element, and wherein the combustible compound is selected from the group consisting of cyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl, [2-(cyclohexenyl)ethyl]tri-ethoxy-silane, cyclohexenyl dimethoxymethylsilane, benzyltrimethylsilane, N-(3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl)ethylenediamine, N-1-(3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl)di-ethylenetriamine, N-(3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl)ethylenediamine, 1-(tri-methyl(silyl)pyrrolidine, triphenylsilanol, octamethyltrisiloxane, 2,2,4,4,6,6-hexamethylcyclotrisilazane, hexamethylcyctrisiloxane, hexamethyldisilane, 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexamethyl disilazane, hexamethyldisiloxane, hexamethyldi-silthiane, allyltributylsilane, tetraalkylsilanes, 3-aminopropyltriethoxy-silane, benzytrimethylsilane, benzytriethylsilane, N-benzyltrimethylsilyl-amine,diphenylsilanediol, dihexylsilanediol, (trimethylsilyl)cyclopentadi-ene, potassium hexacyanoferrate(II), potassium hexacyanoferrate(III), potassium hexacyanocobalt II-ferrate, potassium hexacyanocobalt, potassium sodium ferricyanide, potassium ethoxide, and mixtures thereof.