Refineries use thermal cracking (visbreaking and coking), catalytic cracking, and hydrocracking (also utilizing catalyst, but carried out under a high pressure of hydrogen) to increase the yield of desired products by cracking unwanted heavy fractions.

Fuel Property Testing: Low Temperature Operability. En algunas zonas de Estados Unidos, Reino Unido o Australia,[4]​ el diésel puede ser más caro que la gasolina, debido a razones muy variadas: cortes en el suministro en el Golfo de México, extracción de los compuestos de azufre, desvío de la capacidad de refino en masa a la producción de gasolina.

El diésel o gasóleo en origen es más económico de producir que la gasolina, por ser más sencillo de refinar, y contiene hidrocarburos con un punto de ebullición entre 180-360 °C.

Renewable diesel and petroleum diesel blends are referred to as R2, R5, or R20.

[48], Diesel fuel is also often used as the main ingredient in oil-base mud drilling fluid. This article was written by the It Still Works team, copy edited and fact checked through a multi-point auditing system, in efforts to ensure our readers only receive the best information. En los motores diésel, la combustión no utiliza la chispa de una bujía para encender la mezcla (en la que el gasóleo es el combustible y el oxígeno del aire el comburente), sino el aumento de presión y por lo tanto, de temperatura, que se produce en el segundo tiempo de los motores de combustión interna. En general el gasóleo, combustible usado de modo casi exclusivo por los transportes de mercancías por carretera (camiones, al menos en Europa) suele tener impuestos menores que la gasolina, para favorecer el tráfico de mercancías, y un precio final menor. The principal measure of diesel fuel quality is its cetane number.

Forms EIA uses to collect energy data including descriptions, links to survey instructions, and additional information. The composition of the crude can vary from thin light-colored brownish or greenish crude oils of low density, to thick and black oils resembling melted tar.

High-gravity crude oils contain more of the lighter products needed for the production of transportation fuels, and generally have lower sulfur content. In India, taxes on diesel fuel are lower than on petrol, as the majority of the transportation for grain and other essential commodities across the country runs on diesel.

1.059 CITROEN C5 de particulares y concesionarios de segunda mano y ocasión . In recent testing, PAH compounds were reduced by 75–85%, except for benz(a)anthracene, which was reduced by roughly 50%.

Since 2004, the D975 standard has covered seven grades of diesel, Table 1.

[24][clarification needed] Reasons for higher-priced diesel include the shutdown of some refineries in the Gulf of Mexico, diversion of mass refining capacity to gasoline production, and a recent transfer to ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD), which causes infrastructural complications. Modern refining processes can also convert low-gravity crude oils into lighter products, at an added expense of more complex processing equipment, more processing steps, and more energy.

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Fuels with higher cetane numbers, normally "premium" diesel fuels with additional cleaning agents and some synthetic content, are available in some markets. It is mainly used as the power of tractors, large automobiles, diesel locomotives and civil engineering, excavators, loaders, fishing boats, diesel generators and agricultural machinery. Exploration and reserves, storage, imports and exports, production, prices, sales.

The nearly 800-mile trip was from Indianapolis, Indiana, to New York City. CO emissions using biodiesel are substantially reduced, on the order of 50% compared to most petrodiesel fuels. Copyright 2020 Leaf Group Ltd. / Leaf Group Media. In 2019, the United States consumed about 43 million barrels (1.8 billion gallons) of biomass-based diesel fuel, nearly all as biodiesel blends with petroleum diesel.

However, because it evaporates slowly, any spills on a roadway can pose a slip hazard to vehicles. Methanol can also be replaced with ethanol for the transesterification process, which results in the production of ethyl esters. El diésel cuesta algo menos que la gasolina por una cuestión de impuestos, su rendimiento es más eficiente (un vehículo diésel consume menos combustible por distancia recorrida que un vehículo de gasolina).[2]​.

Conventional diesel fuels vaporise at temperatures between 149 °C and 371 °C.

Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2019, Monthly Crude Oil and Natural Gas Production ›, Midwest and Rocky Mountain Transportation Fuels Markets, East Coast and Gulf Coast Transportation Fuels Markets. [11][12], FAME used as fuel is specified in DIN EN 14214[13] and ASTM D6751 standards. Diesel engines are lean burn engines,[30] burning the fuel in more air than is needed for the chemical reaction.

Al principio eran vehículos muy contaminantes y generaban mucho humo, lo que le valió el sobrenombre de smokers (humeantes).

Thus many farm tractors of the era could burn gasoline, alcohol, kerosene, and any light grade of fuel oil such as diesel fuel, heating oil, or tractor vaporising oil, according to whichever was most affordable in any region at any given time. "Untaxed" diesel (sometimes called "off-road diesel" or "red diesel" due to its red dye) is available in some countries for use primarily in agricultural applications, such as fuel for tractors, recreational and utility vehicles or other noncommercial vehicles that do not use public roads. International energy information, including overviews, rankings, data, and analyses. Moreover, sulfur in the fuel is oxidized during combustion, producing sulfur dioxide and sulfur trioxide, that in presence of water rapidly convert to sulfuric acid, one of the chemical processes that results in acid rain.

That the 2019 Mazda CX-5 Diesel is just now hitting showrooms now is a bit of a shock. This category of diesel fuels involves converting the triglycerides in vegetable oil and animal fats into alkanes by refining and hydrogenation, such as H-Bio.

En cumplimiento de la citada normativa, para la puesta en servicio de cualquier instalación petrolífera, entre las que están incluidas cualquier instalación de consumo particular, será necesario presentar ante el órgano competente de la correspondiente comunidad autónoma certificados y demás documentación por un técnico competente o instalador autorizado. - Pacific Biodiesel", http://altfuelsgroup.org/site/images/M_images/projects/b100overview.pdf, "For safety sake, homestead fuel storage must be handled properly", "Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update - Energy Information Administration", http://www.criterioncatalysts.com/static/criterion-gb/downloads/pdf/technical_papers/cri707ertc06.pdf, "Title 26, § 48.4082–1 Diesel fuel and kerosene; exemption for dyed fuel", "North Carolina Biodiesel Laws and Incentives", "FIE system; diesel fuel system; boat fuel system", "The Mercedes-Benz gasoline engine from 1926 on", "Diesel Revival Is Going On in the Motor City", "Emission Facts: Average Carbon Dioxide Emissions Resulting from Gasoline and Diesel Fuel", "Alternative Transport Fuels – Courtesy of AIP", Environmental Impacts of Synthetic Based Drilling Fluids, http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/Display.cfm?Term=diesel-oil%20mud, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, "Toxic diesel particles penetrate right through to the heart, scientists warn", "Thousands of UK motorists removing diesel particulate filters", "U.S. Prime Supplier Sales Volumes of Petroleum Products", "Idle Hour," Feature Article, January 2005, "Water Contamination in Fuel: Cause and Effect - American Filtration and Separations Society", "Oil on the road as a cause of accidents", U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration: Safety and Health Topics: Diesel Exhaust, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diesel_fuel&oldid=980677522, Articles with dead external links from September 2017, Articles with permanently dead external links, Wikipedia articles needing clarification from December 2017, Wikipedia articles needing clarification from August 2018, Wikipedia articles needing clarification from January 2017, Articles with unsourced statements from September 2014, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 27 September 2020, at 20:43. [31] Gas turbine and some other types of internal combustion engines, and external combustion engine, both can also be designed to take diesel fuel. According to the US Energy Information Administration, approximately 94 percent of freight shipped in the... Construction. [62], There has been much discussion and misunderstanding of algae in diesel fuel. Origen y etimología.

[16] The loss in power when using pure biodiesel is 5–7%. Cuando se obtiene de la destilación del petróleo se denomina petrodiésel y cuando se obtiene a partir de aceites vegetales se denomina biodiésel. Biodiesel also may reduce health risks associated with petroleum diesel.

The dieselization of tractors and heavy equipment began in Germany before World War II but was unusual in the United States until after that war.

To prevent that, more premium crank case ventilation solutions are fitted with a filter to catch out lubricant mist. Diesel fuel is widely used in most types of transportation.

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