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Old 03-07-2005, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Pete Burton
My son just finished a school science experiment where he tested performance of common anti-gel diesel additives with biodiesel. The additives didn't help at all. I helped him measure carefully, calibrated thermometers, etc, and we did FLOW tests, not static ones. Mixing evenly with kerosene (BK50) was effective down to about -12C, but that was it (using 52 cetane B100 from soy)
That's about 10 deg F for BK50? Isn't that kinda bad for our cars to be running kerosene? What was B100 good for, temp wise?
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