Re: [MV] MultiFuel Options?
steve shaw (gyrene37@webtv.net)
Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:31:15 -0500 (EST)
I'm not sure there's much difference between kerosene and #1 fuel oil
anyway. I'm not an expert on truck fuels, but know from running an
antique kerosene lamp business for many years, that true, pure kerosene
is clear like water and most of what you get in the service station that
they call kerosene is #1 fuel oil (even has the pink dye used as a road
tax monitor). They will both burn, but the pink stuff is somewhat
dirtier where the clear won't smoke and gum up a burner as bad. Isn't
it true that JetA is just a more highly refined kerosene? I think as
fuels go higher up in the refinement process, they get more and more
volatile as the flash point comes down. that's why you can put a match
out in a dish of kerosene, but try the same thing with a dish of
gasoline and and the fumes will ignite before you ever got to the
liquid. Higher yet on the scale would be benzene and the like. I have
heard that some truckers use #2 fuel part of the time, but is is also
dirtier in the engine and most use #1 exclusively in the winter.
Just about .005 cents worth.
Steve
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