The Lubricity of Winter Diesel Fuels - Part 3: Further Pump Rig Tests

961944

10/01/1996

Event
1996 SAE International Fall Fuels and Lubricants Meeting and Exhibition
Authors Abstract
Content
The durability and performance of diesel fuel injection equipment in actual use continues to be a concern for the manufacturers of diesel powered equipment, diesel fuel injection equipment suppliers and diesel fuel suppliers This concern has been caused by recent changes to both the equipment and the diesel fuel driven by environmental legislation The term “lubricity” has become commonly used to describe the ability of a diesel fuel to prevent or minimise wear in diesel fuel injection equipment Of particular interest are distributor and rotary type fuel injection pumps that rely totally on the fuel for lubrication These pump types are commonly used in light and medium duty diesel engines Earlier work has shown that fuels with good low temperature properties have inherently poorer lubricity performance than summer quality diesel fuels (1, 2)* Due to the need for such fuels in Canada we have been investigating the lubricity performance of winter diesel fuels for a number of years Most recently we have studied the lubricity performance of various fuels and additives in rotary type pumps and related these results to the test fuel properties, including lubricity as measured in a number of current lab bench tests
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/961944
Pages
13
Citation
Mitchell, K., "The Lubricity of Winter Diesel Fuels - Part 3: Further Pump Rig Tests," SAE Technical Paper 961944, 1996, https://doi.org/10.4271/961944.
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Published
Oct 1, 1996
Product Code
961944
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English