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Diesel or Diesel fuel is a specific fractional distillate of fuel oil (mostly petroleum) that is used as fuel in a diesel engine invented by German engineer Rudolf Diesel. The term typically refers to fuel that has been processed from petroleum, but increasingly, alternatives such as biodiesel or biomass to liquid (BTL) or gas to liquid (GTL) diesel that are not derived from petroleum are being developed and adopted.

Petroleum diesel


Diesel is produced from petroleum, and is sometimes called petrodiesel (or, less seriously, dinodiesel) when there is a need to distinguish it from diesel obtained from other sources such as vegidiesel (biodiesel) derived from pure (SVO) or recycled waste (WVO) vegetable oil. As a hydrocarbon mixture, it is obtained in the fractional distillation of crude oil between 250 °C and 350 °C at atmospheric pressure.

The density of diesel is about 850 grams per liter whereas gasoline has a density of about 720 g/l, or about 15% less. When burnt, diesel typically releases about 40.9 megajoules (MJ) per liter, whereas gasoline releases 34.8 MJ/L, also about 15% less. Diesel is generally simpler to refine than gasoline and often costs less (although price fluctuations often mean that the inverse is true; for example, the cost of diesel traditionally rises during colder months as demand for heating oil, which is refined much the same way, rises).

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2002 - PEUGEOT 607 - Diesel 206000km - https://www.dealerdirect.nl/k/186759
dealerdirect (Dealerdirect.nl) Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:49:16 -0000
2002 - PEUGEOT 607 - Diesel 206000km - https://www.dealerdirect.nl/k/186759
RT @JiggyDje: RT @brianelstak: "So so lobi is de movement. So so trobi is voor losers." - Win Diesel
deKribbuh (deKribbuh) Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:48:46 -0000
RT @JiggyDje: RT @brianelstak: "So so lobi is de movement. So so trobi is voor losers." - Win Diesel
DESTAQUES: Começa a venda de Diesel com 5% de biodiesel http://goo.gl/fb/2JAr
JC_RS (Jornal do Comércio) Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:47:59 -0000
DESTAQUES: Começa a venda de Diesel com 5% de biodiesel http://goo.gl/fb/2JAr
Happy 2010! Got urea? New diesel engine emissions regulations that cut NOx by 90% from 2006 take effect today: http://twitpic.com/w8l23
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Happy 2010! Got urea? New diesel engine emissions regulations that cut NOx by 90% from 2006 take effect today: http://twitpic.com/w8l23
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Edmonton Duramax Diesel Service ( Edmonton ) -maintenance -diagnostics -performance mods.  ... http://tinyurl.com/yzvp8ep
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