Q&A

What is wide cut fuel?

What is wide cut fuel?

A blend of approximately 30% kerosene and 70% gasoline, it is known as wide-cut fuel. It has a very low freezing point of −60 °C (−76 °F), and a low flash point as well. It is primarily used in some military aircraft. It is also used in northern Canada, Alaska, and sometimes Russia, because of its low freezing point.

What is the difference between Jet A and Jet a1?

Jet A is used in the United States while most of the rest of the world uses Jet A-1. The important difference between the two fuels is that Jet A-1 has a lower maximum freezing point than Jet A (Jet A: –40°C, Jet A-1: –47°C). Many years of experience have shown that Jet A is suitable for use in the United States.

Which fuel is used in helicopter?

Aviation kerosene
Aviation kerosene, also known as QAV-1, is the fuel used by airplanes and helicopters equipped with turbine engines, such as pure jet, turboprops, or turbofans.

Is JP-8 the same as diesel?

In addition to its use for powering aircraft, JP-8 is used as a fuel for heaters, stoves, tanks, by the U.S. military and its NATO allies as a replacement for diesel fuel in the engines of nearly all tactical ground vehicles and electrical generators, and as a coolant in engines and some other aircraft components.

Can you use jet fuel in a diesel engine?

By tests on a D-245.12S engine, we have confirmed that it is feasible to use a jet fuel with the proposed additives in a diesel engine, without substantial changes in the engine cycle parameters, the power and fuel economy parameters relative to running on a diesel fuel.

What type of fuel is Jet A?

Jet fuel (Jet A-1 type aviation fuel, also called JP-1A) is used globally in the turbine engines (jet engines, turboprops) in civil aviation. This is a carefully refined, light petroleum. The fuel type is kerosene. Jet A-1 has a flash point higher than 38°C and a freezing point of -47°C.

Can you mix diesel and JP 8?

You can absolutely use jp8 in your truck if you can get some. Some trucks will respond better than others though. Jp8 is a lighter key distillate mix than diesel, similar to kerosene. It has umpteen additives though.

Will kerosene hurt a diesel engine?

Kerosene will burns fine in most diesel engines without harming them. Because of this, kerosene burns cooler than diesel and has no lubricant additives like diesel fuel does. This means that if you do run kerosene in your diesel, it will put a strain on your injector pump unless you add the right lubricant to the fuel.

Why does diesel have a higher calorific value than petrol?

The calorific value of a fuel is the quantity of heat produced by its combustion at constant pressure and under normal conditions. Diesel has a higher calorific value then petrol because Diesel provides better fuel economy than petrol engines.

What’s the heat value of a gallon of diesel?

That said petrol and diesel fuels have approximately the same heat value, petrol at 44–46MJ/kg, diesel around 45MJ/kg, or around 10000kcal/kg. One gallon of American Diesel Fuel has 139,000 BTU = 35,028 kcal of energy.

What’s the difference between gas and diesel fuel?

For most U.S. consumers, diesel fuel and gas fuel cost about the same. Sometimes diesel rises above gas in price and other times drops below the cost of gas. However, even when you spend more on diesel fuel, you’ll still get more economy from a diesel engine over the life of the vehicle.

How to calculate the calorific value of fuel oil?

The quantity of heat evolved due to the combustion of sulphur is S × 9160 kJ. A fuel oil consists of 85% carbon, 12.5% hydrogen and the rest is incombustible material. Estimate the higher calorific value and the lower calorific value of this fuel, taking the specific enthalpy of the water vapour formed by combustion to be 2442 kJ/kg.