Diesel Fuel

Basics

• A Liquid Hydrocarbon
• Mainly used as fuel
• Can be:
  • Non-Renewable Diesel (Almost always just called "Diesel” or “#2 Fuel Oil”)
    • Although minor caveat in that most modern Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel Fuel has Biodiesel blended in at 5-10%
  • Bio-Diesel
    • This can be in two forms:
      • Transesterification Biodiesel (This process takes PPO / WVO etc then it undergoes a Transesterification Reaction , is washed, and is Biodiesel) (It will have slightly different properties as Petrodiesel in areas such as Gel Point and Fuel Lubricity etc)
      • Hydrotreatment Biodiesel (Often Called Renewable Diesel ) (This uses the same feedstocks, but uses processes more akin to conventional refineries ( Hydrotreating , Fractional Distillation etc) For all intensive purposes should be identical to Fossil Diesel
  • Another aspect would be Bio-Refinery derived diesel from Pyrolysis Oil or Biocrude
    • As with Renewable Diesel it should be identical to Petrodiesel it is different in that it can use nearly any feedstock and to an extent Electricity (RE: Power-to-Fuels )
    • Short of some Government Projects, it isn't commercialized/discussed as much and thus isn't that directly relevant

Internal Links

• Bio-Diesel
• Cetane Value (Similar to Octane Rating but for Fuels used in Compression Ignition Engines )
• DME (An Alternative to Diesel Fuel for Compression Ignition Engines with some advantages)
• OMEx (Another class of Diesel Fuel Alternatives that can also be used as an Fuel Oxygenate Additive

External Links

• The Wikipedia Page on Diesel Fuel