Diesel Fuel. However two other grades Grade No. The term diesel fuel is generic.
4-D are also in commercial use. Each individual oil refiner and supplier attempts to produce diesel fuels that comply as closely as possible with ASTM and API specifications. He patented his original design in 1892.
Diesel fuel is the liquid fuel used in diesel engines a compression engine as opposed to the automobile spark ignition engine and the most common is a specific fraction distilled petroleum generally boiling within the boiling range of fuel oil between 200350 C 392662 F at atmospheric pressure.
Diesel fuel also called diesel oil combustible liquid used as fuel for diesel engines ordinarily obtained from fractions of crude oil that are less volatile than the fractions used in gasoline. Therefore diesel fuel needs good compression ignition characteristics. 1 paraffinic 2 naphthenic or cycloparaffinic and 3 aromatic hydrocarbons. But there are a few kinds of diesel fuel.