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4 unusual facts about Diesel fuel


Antonio Munguambe

and in exchange promised to provide fuel subsidies to licensed transport operators, so that they could in effect purchase diesel at the price prior to January 23 (31.0 meticais per litre, as opposed to 35.35 per litre).

Barnaul

Leading industries in the city work with diesel and carbon processing; as well as production of heavy machinery, tires, furniture and footwear.

Dübəndi

The storage capacity of Dubendi Terminal is 150,000 m³ for clean products (gasoline, diesel, naptha, jet fuel etc.) and 150,000 m³ for black products (crude oil and fuel oil).

Lubricity

Diesel fuel naturally contains sulfur compounds that provide good lubricity, but because of regulations in many countries (such as the US and the EU) sulphur must be removed.


Crushed Edwards Limestone Road Base

To quarry and process one ton of limestone base requires 0.17 gallons of diesel, 1.05 pounds of explosive, and 0.95 Kilowatt hours of electricity.

Fuel tax

Excise taxes on gasoline and diesel are collected both federal and provincial governments, as well as by some select municipalities (Montreal, Vancouver, and Victoria); with combined excise taxes varying from 16.2 ¢/L (73.6 ¢/imperial gal; 61.2 ¢/US gal) in the Yukon to 30.5 ¢/L ($1.386/imperial gal; $1.153/US gal) in Vancouver.

José Zanier

José Zanier (Udine, Italy, September 18, 1905 – Mar del Plata, Argentina January 30, 1973) was an Italian engineer and pioneer in the construction of thermo-electric power stations supplied by diesel motors.

Solvent Red 26

Its main use is as a standard fuel dye in the United States of America mandated by the IRS to distinguish low-taxed or tax exempt heating oil from automotive diesel fuel, and by the EPA to mark fuels with higher sulfur content; it is however increasingly replaced with Solvent Red 164, a similar dye with longer alkyl chains, which is better soluble in hydrocarbons.


see also

Biodiesel

Attempts to overcome these problems included heating of the vegetable oil, blending it with petroleum-derived diesel fuel or ethanol, pyrolysis and cracking of the oils.

Diesel motorcycle

In the 1980s, NATO forces in Europe standardized all their vehicles to operate with diesel fuel.

Dosmatic U.S.A.

Dosmatic manufactures injectors and pumps for the following market applications: Animal Health, Bio-Decontamination, Diesel Fuel Additives, Firefighting & Prevention, Food Processing, Golf Course Management, Horticulture, Pest Control, Printing, Vehicle Wash, Waste-water treatment and other specialty applications.

Petroleum pricing in Nova Scotia

The price of gasoline and diesel fuel are based on the price on the New York Mercantile Exchange as a benchmark in Canadian funds.

Singapore Green Plan 2012

The Green Plan, whose idea has been introduced to the United States by Huey Johnson, has gradually phased out diesel fuel in factories and industry use, and is testing out alternative renewable energy resources, mainly hydrogen fuel and solar energy.