Diesel fuel additive ---- WOW !
I am sure some of y'all have diesel fired shop/barn heaters . My heater was getting slow to light and when lit it smelled like an oil refinery . As an experiment I added a half cup of that cetane b...
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06Fargo wrote:
. Why wouldn't aviation turbine fuel be low sulphur now too?
It is diesel injection systems that needed the sulphur for lubricity.
Economics, plain and simple.
Reducing the sulphur for no reason other than convenience would increase the cost of fuel by just over 1%.
But to put that in perspective, that would cost the aviation industry (read: everybody who flies) a total of about $1.3 to $3.8 billion per year if implemented globally, about $0.5-$1.4 billion per year for the US alone.
A typical passenger jet, an Airbus A320, burns about 665 gallons per hour.
