Recent news on Cetane

ULSD fuel update  -  25 May 2007
Fleet Equipment Magazine,Cetane Index (ASTM D-4737) – Calculated according to ASTM D-4737, using API Gravity and mid-boiling point, the Cetane Index is a measure of a diesel fuel's

Exhaust gas treatments for No x reduction to add to global warming  -  May 12, 2007
HULIQ,It contributes to a significant reduction in exhaust emissions, raising the cetane content, and improving fuel economy up to 15%. (By this, it should permit

Diesel ready to make the big switch  -  May 11, 2007
Times Online,...—It has a higher cetane rating than regular diesel. Cetane is diesel’s equivalent of the octane that is in petrol and means that combustion in the cylinder

Demystifying and Understanding Lubricants  -  May 23, 2007
Practicing Oil Analysis Magazine,The FTIR determined this to be an oil based on vegetable oils, such as Canola oil with a cetane improver (alkylated nitrate) present in the concentration

F1 could switch to turbo V6 engines running on biofuel  -  May 20, 2007
Autoblog,However, pure synthetic Fischer-Tropsch liquids (eg BTL) and DME (dimethylether) both have much higher cetane numbers and could perhaps support higher

Aftermarket: Well oiled  -  May 14, 2007
Contract Journal,To complicate the picture still further, Riles points out that red diesel is typically has a higher sulphur content and a lower cetane number than white

Biosdiese: Fuel of the future seminar at BCC  -  May 4, 2007
Elizabethtown Bladen Journal,For advantages, biodiesel has a higher cetane — diesel’s version of an octane designation — rating than conventional fuel, plus a lower flashpoint that

Biodiesel Can Work Well in Engines  -  Apr 20, 2007
CattleNetwork.com,The cetane number is a method for determining the ignition quality of a fuel. Most farm tractor engine manufacturers recommend a minimum cetane rating of 40

Man races world's fastest cat  -  Apr 13, 2007
CNNThe cheetah chosen to run against Habana was a 2 ½-year-old female named Cetane. She was orphaned at birth after poachers killed her mother.

Man vs beast: Habana goes one-on-one with cheetah  -  Apr 17, 2007
Sunday Times,See the race between Springbok ace wing Bryan Habana and Cetane, the cheetah. The De Wildt cheetah conservatory near Hartbeespoortdam in the North West was

Getting Diesel – from Natural Gas?  -  Apr 18, 2007
TheCarConnection.comFirstly, it has a cetane rating of more than 70. Cetane is to diesel what octane is to gasoline, and what's available on European forecourts today is only

Cheetah leaves Bok in slow lane  -  Apr 12, 2007
Independent Online,The rugby star almost walked away victorious, but Cetane effortlessly pipped Habana a few metres from the 100m finish line - after the Springbok had been

Cheetah beats Blue Bulls’ Habana  -  Apr 12, 2007
Citizen,The census was launched with a race between Bryan Habana and the cheetah, Cetane. “In a straight race, the cheetah wins comfortably but in every other way,

What's in a Name? If it's Thermal Depolymerization, a Lot  -  Apr 23, 2007
Grainnet,...“However, the renewable diesel product, unlike biodiesel, has a cetane number of nearly 100 and is entirely pipeline fungible. Therefore, at least on paper,

What's in your tank?  -  Apr 22, 2007
Telegraph.co.uk,Biodiesel also has a higher cetane number, so there is less combustion knock and quieter engines, while its fatty properties provide good lubricity,

Gas to Liquids Technology and Market Potential  -  Apr 21, 2007
PRLog.Org (press release),...diesel fuel with an energy density comparable to conventional diesel, but with a higher cetane number, permitting a superior performance engine design.

Spotlight: The US Military's March 2007 Fuel Contracts  -  Apr 1, 2007
Defense Industry Daily,F-76 burned in Paxman engines however, must have a minimum Cetane Number of 45 (the F-76 specification allows a minimum Cetane Number of 42).

Fryer oil fuels student car  -  Apr 19, 2007
Thunder Bay's Source,The french fry grease is more enviro-friendly because of its high cetane levels which makes for quicker engine combustion. Despite the technology behind it,

Jatropha plantation: A boon for state  -  Apr 17, 2007
KanglaOnline,Bio-diesel is an environment friendly diesel which has low sulphur, a high cetane number, no aroma, high lubricity, and high flash point capacity with

Green Myth-Busting: Biodiesel  -  Apr 5, 2007
Green Options blog,Biodiesel has a higher cetane number (higher ignitability) and combusts more completely. Biodiesel is also a good solvent and will clean out diesel fuel

Organic Fuel Conditioner for Petrol, Diesel and Bio-Fuels Now ...  -  Apr 3, 2007
PR Web (press release),Cybersizzle increases the cetane and octane ratings, cleans your cars fuel system, improves combustion and helps protect the environment with the lower

PIMP Magic and Delta Paintball Team up  -  Apr 1, 2007
68 Caliber,PIMP Magic fits perfect with the over all fun loving attitude of Delta Paintball" - Pete "Evil Cetane" Joy. I look forward to working with such a well known

US: South Dakota school district to switch to O2Diesel ethanol ...  -  Mar 30, 2007
Automotive World (subscription),O2Diesel consists of 7.7% ethanol with about 1% proprietary additive and a cetane improver. Compared to conventional diesel, this fuel blend reduces carbon

Texas Respects Biodiesel, I Respect German Engineering and I Tease ...  -  26 Mar 2007
American Chronicle,...the thorough German engineers that they are, they pass this product on to further distillation and hydrotreating to yield a high cetane number fuel.

South Africa's Sasol Offers CTL For China's Refining Shortfall  -  Mar 23, 2007
Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (subscription),...and Shaanxi provinces that would mainly produce ultra-low-sulfur diesel of less than 5 parts per million and a high cetane number of more than 70.

BRAZIL'S ALCOHOL DIESELS  -  Mar 20, 2007
Mother Earth News,Ethanol meets all these requirements but two: It doesn't have the lubricative qualities of petroleum distillates, and its cetane number (which is used to

Clean Diesel Engines  -  Mar 21, 2007
4Wheel and Off Road MagazineOn the upside, the sulfur reduction causes an increase in diesel fuel's cetane rating, which is sort of like gasoline's octane. The cetane rating is a

Council OKs loan for biodiesel project  -  Mar 13, 2007
Carlsbad Current Argus,CARLSBAD — Cetane Energy, a locally owned company that plans to build and operate a biodiesel plant in Carlsbad, cleared a major hurdle Tuesday to get the

Carlsbad City Council biodiesel loan  -  Mar 14, 2007
KOB-TV,The loan agreement between the city, the US Department of Energy and the owners of Carlsbad-based Cetane Energy was approved Tuesday.

New Report on GTL Looks at this Lucrative and Fast Rising Industry ...  -  Mar 25, 2007
PetroMine (Subscription),...diesel fuel with an energy density comparable to conventional diesel, but with a higher cetane number, permitting a superior performance engine design.

What fuel will your machines use?  -  Mar 25, 2007
Infolink Architecture & Building,BTL’s ignition qualities (as measured by a very high cetane number) are excellent, thereby reducing noise and resulting in cleaner combustion than with

Fuel additive is one way to reduce emissions in troubled Texas region  -  Mar 15, 2007
Land Line Magazine,Brown said there are four ways fuel producers can meet TxLED standards of 10 percent maximum aeromatics and a minimum cetane number of 48. Those are:

Nat'l Ag Week: Ag producers refining their own fuel  -  Mar 16, 2007
Washington Evening Journal,Besides serving as a renewable source of energy, biofuels offer more lubricity and cetane, which is diesel fuel's equivalent to octane, plus similar

Biomass-To-Liquids: A Potential Path in Brazil  -  Mar 12, 2007
Energy Tribune,These properties, along with a high cetane number, result in superior combustion characteristics. From the information available in the literature,

Octane monitoring systems  -  Mar 5, 2007
SA Instrumentation and Control,Other applications include Cetane Number in diesel fuels and blending of lube oils. COM's fast scan multiplexer option can support up to 10 stations with

Chevron Phillips Chemical Names ChemPoint.com As Global Reference ...  -  Feb 26, 2007
Business Wire (press release),Applications include, but are not limited to, establishing octane or cetane requirements, the ability to resist vapor lock, the impact of fuel quality on

Fuel change for school buses stirs concerns  -  Feb 17, 2007
Press & Sun-Bulletin,But the significant drop in sulfur takes the lubricity out of fuel and lowers the cetane reading, which affects the fuel's ability to start the engine,

Biodiesel project gets $1.1 million loan  -  Jan 26, 2007
Carlsbad Current Argus,CEHMM will supply Cetane with algae oil to be processed at the plant. Working with New Mexico State University Agriculture Science Center in Artesia,

An economic development bulls-eye  -  Jan 27, 2007
Carlsbad Current Argus,On Friday, Carlsbad's city council approved a $1.1 million dollar loan of WIPP acceleration funds to Cetane Energy. Cetane, a new company locally owned and

Coal Liquefaction Offers Cost Savings, and Environmental and ...  -  Feb 16, 2007
InvestorIdeas.com (press release),One of the biggest differences between the two coal liquefaction technologies is that direct coal liquefaction makes high-octane gasoline and low-cetane

Biodiesel – Need of modern India  -  Feb 16, 2007
Checkbiotech.org (press release),Its higher cetane number improves the ignition quality even when blended in petroleum diesel. In the process of exchanging the alkoxy group (is an alkyl

Rudolf’s revenge  -  Feb 10, 2007
Economist,American refineries have continued to produce diesel with a lower cetane number—a measure of the fuel’s ignition quality, like the octane rating for petrol.

Speaker: 5% biodiesel soon will be standard  -  Feb 7, 2007
eTruckerHowell mentioned two other changes in biodiesel standards on the horizon: A less expensive lab test for cetane will be allowed, and the minimum flash point

Engines Thrive on a High-Fat Diet - 2007-02-03  -  Feb 3, 2007
exduco,But polyunsaturates, which are healthier for humans, “are not good for engines because they lower the cetane number, or the ignition quality,

Coco-biodiesel seen to boost economy  -  Jan 17, 2007
Sun.Star,Coco-biodiesel was also cited in promoting better, more efficient combustion and less engine vibration because of its higher cetane number,

Houston to regulate distillate fuels  -  Jan 4, 2007
bunkerworld,The key parameters of TxLED are a minimum cetane of 48, compared to 40 for DMA-grade MGO in the ISO standard, and a "maximum aromatic hydrocarbon content of

FAA Issues Guidelines On Diesel Engine Compliance  -  Dec 11, 2006
Aero-News Network,However, aviation jet fuel specifications such as ASTM International D1655 do not include criteria for control of cetane number, because this is not a

Slavneft-YANOS' Starts Production of Diesel Fuel with Low Sulfur ...  -  Dec 19, 2006
Financial Information Service(Registration),...content in diesel fuel at 50 ppm and 10 ppm. The fuel is also characterized by high cetane number and low content of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

Do what you want behind the barn, but don't brew your own soydiesel  -  Dec 14, 2006
Agriculture OnlineThey will have different cetane points which affects ignition quality, different cloud and stability points, which affects cold weather flowability and

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