Talk:Diesel fuel

message: I know for a fact that diesel engines are used on ships and for electricity generation  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fdsdh1 (talk • contribs) 19:31, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: seems to focused on car use

message: *The World Health Organization (WHO) concludes that diesel exhaust causes cancer. ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18415532 )
108.195.138.38 (talk) 05:03, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add from [[Portal:Current events/2012 June 12]]? 

message: Modern gasoline (Otto) engines are as efficient as Diesel engines. According to volkswagen.de, the current VW Golf with a 118 kW TSI (gasoline/Otto) engine gets 139 g/km CO₂ compared to 138 g/km CO₂ for the 103 kW TDI (Diesel) engine, both with DSG.
The according section of this article urgently needs an update, since it cites outdated sources from 2006–2008.
--178.2.188.106 (talk) 21:30, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Guess it depends on your definition of efficiency. The energy per unit volume of diesel is still considerably higher than that of gasoline.1812ahill (talk) 11:56, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fuel economy/greenhouse gases: no difference anymore between Diesel and Otto 

message: Perhaps an average price of petrodiesel can be given ? In Europe price is about 1,4 euro and in USA about 0,6 euro/liter. The price of vegetable oil for example is about 0,6 euro in both territories. Link to vegetable oil economy.
BTW: reading the intro, this article deals around every fuel that can be used in Diesel engines. Thus, the name should be Diesel engine fuel. "Diesel fuel" however refers to petrodiesel.
91.182.37.177 (talk) 07:10, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Price

message: This article doesn't mention the distinction between the two types of diesel that are used in the U.S. (at least), #1 and #2. The Emory citation that's already being used here discusses it. 70.228.68.126 (talk) 10:38, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Types 

message: "In Australia Diesel fuel is often known as 'distillate'."
I've lived in Australia my entire life and have never heard it called this. Is there anyone here from another part of Australia who does? Otherwise it should be removed.Lenny (talk) 10:44, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Distillate

message: Should this article be protected? It has been protected since 2011, but I could not find any explanation. Could someone please unprotect the page, or locate the reason for the protection and post it here on the talk page? 192.249.47.209 (talk) 21:08, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protection 

message: I added the well regarded Harvey academic text from the UK as a reference in "Further reading," as it is, from my reading, almost certainly a text on which the original contributing editors drew (without acknowledgment). 71.239.87.100 (talk) 11:58, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added well regarded Harvey reference 

message: The article has
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As Professor Harvey of the University of Toronto notes, "due to the absence of throttling [constant amount of air admitted, per unit fuel, with no user-determined variation], the high compression ratio and lean fuel mixture, diesel engines are substantially more efficient than spark-ignited engines"
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Is the phrase inside the square brackets in the cited source or added by a WP editor? (I ask because it makes no sense - how is a diesel car controlled? The user determines the position of the accelerator pedal, and thereby varies the amount of fuel per stroke, but the amount of air per stroke is constant!)
86.162.138.178 (talk) 13:16, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harvey misquoted? 

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message: Missing Information about producers, market shares and world consumption  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 153.202.35.167 (talk) 04:38, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  producers (2017) 

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message: Can I use the below content from a press release and cite it. I think this is a valuable content.. Would require other authors inputs. 
Cetane improver additives are extensively used in the automobile industry to facilitate better combustion in diesel fuels and to follow stringent government regulations. There are two national diesel fuel standards in China – GB 19147 for on road vehicles and GB 252 (general diesel fuel) –for other applications including non-road engines.  China V Emission standards have been set with an objective to decrease sulfur content down to 10 ppm and increase Cetane levels up to the 51 level. The specifications for China V and China VI fuel, GB 19147-2016, were issued in December 2016. The China VI gasoline and diesel standards are generally more stringent than the Euro V fuel standards currently in force in the European Union, although China’s fuel quality standards otherwise mostly follow European precedents. 
- https://www.industryarc.com/PressRelease/2418/Cetane-Improver-Additives-Market-Research.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bejjamvijayvardhan (talk • contribs) 11:31, 3 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taking content from a pressrelease 

message: I'm not sure how much sense it makes to cite an 'average composition' of a substance that is 75% alkanes with chemical formulas that are not alkanes.  Alkanes must have formulas of the form CnH2+n*2.  
Thoughts?
--Fish-man (talk) 20:04, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem with the term Diesel fuel is that its definition is very vague – therefore, in Europe, the term Diesel fuel is narrowed down to what is standardised in the Euronorm 590 standard. However, ideal fuel for Diesel engines consists of 100 % Alkanes which makes it not EN 590 compliant – thus it is not Diesel fuel. If the section was about "ideal Diesel fuel", then the chemical formula should be changed, obviously. However, that particular section is on the chemical composition of American Diesel fuel, which apparently consists of 25 % aromatic hydrocarbons. In that case, non-Alkane chemical formulas make sense (so there is no need for changing them). Best regards, --Johannes (Talk) (Contribs) (Articles) 10:17, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chemical composition 

message: Diesel fuel should be moved to diesel because that is the overwhelmingly primary usage. If not, then at least to diesel (fuel) because it is extremely rarely referred to as diesel fuel in modern times.
2A02:C7F:31CF:6400:DCB0:FD34:6E4A:1596 (talk) 12:24, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you know of any reliable sources that can be used to verify your claim? I strongly believe that this is a delusion because virtually every WP:RS-and-WP:V-compliant book related to the topic refers to fuel suited for Diesel engines as "diesel fuel". The same is true for the most common diesel fuel standards (EN590 and ASTM D975). Best regards, --Johannes (Talk) (Contribs) (Articles) 12:46, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Move

message: This sentence is misleading:"Biodiesel is obtained from vegetable oil or animal fats (biolipids) which are mainly fatty acid methyl esters (FAME), and transesterified with methanol."
Biolipids are esters of propan-tri-ol (glycerine) and fatty acids, not methyl esters.
They become FAME through transesterification. 153.100.134.67 (talk) 14:08, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fatty acids 

message: it would be useful to link to Otto engine to clarify. 142.163.195.114 (talk) 14:48, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Otto" engine