DIESEL FUEL ADDITIVES CREATE NEW CONCEPTS

450031

01/01/1945

Event
Pre-1964 SAE Technical Papers
Authors Abstract
Content
The high speed Diesel engine fuel specification has been built around a straight-run petroleum distillate from certain paraffinic crudes in order to have definite physical and chemical characteristics which especially reflect in certain minimum ignition quality, generally expressed in Cetane Number or Diesel Index.
Addition of chemical agents have brought about new concepts and make the specification requirements built around straight-run petroleum distillate fuels obsolete for their classification. Large scale usage of Amyl Nitrate Diesel additive fuels in several makes of Railroad Locomotive Diesel engines over extended periods have proven their effectiveness; the freedom from harmful deposits or corrosion in the engine and fuel injection system; also that exhaust smoke conditions were negligible.
The power performance ratings of Diesel fuels, based on new concepts of fuel combustion and chemical structure, are the true guide to a satisfactory high speed Diesel fuel of the future - not Cetane Number.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/450031
Pages
8
Citation
LARSON, C., "DIESEL FUEL ADDITIVES CREATE NEW CONCEPTS," SAE Technical Paper 450031, 1945, https://doi.org/10.4271/450031.
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Published
Jan 1, 1945
Product Code
450031
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English