My father sent me into town today to pick up 2 gallons of kerosene for the torches in our back yard. I can't help but notice that this stuff smells exactly like diesel.

So, I ask you guys, what is the chemical difference between diesel fuel and kerosene? Is it (hypothetically) safe to use kerosene to fuel a diesel engine, either by itself or in a mixture?

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Kerosense is a lighter distilate....but containes far fewer BTU cpacity and makes less power...

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Should only be used in a mixture with something that lubricates. You'll hurt your injection pump with straight kero.

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I used to top my old Olds diesel off in the winter to help keep from gelling when I would take a trip up north. Got some awesome MPG when I did that too! Made it all the way from Dallas to north of KC on one tank one time...not sure why, but the 40MPG was great! Hmmmm, back when diesel was still about 1/2 the price of regular gasoline....The "Good Ole Days!" As I am now paying 2.33+ a gal...

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Someone is using 8 gallons of WVO w/ 2 gallons of kerosene to run his 85 300 DT weithout any modifications....

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And I just saw that kerosene is 20 cent per gallon cheaper than diesel.

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Kerosene is also known as 'white gas' It was used in the 60's and 70's in most 'Coleman' products. The coleman stove where you put in the kero, and pumped up the tank. the coleman lanterns. and of course the coleman heaters. WRONG I STAND CORRECTED

Kerosene up here is $2.50 a gallon PLUS sales tax, which makes it more expensive then diesel.

You sure it's got less BTU's bonehead? seems to me that it burns pretty clean, which would indicate that it has more BTU's,,, doesn't it?

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Marty

I have to agree with bonehead. We burn a 50/50 kero mix in the winter in all of our diesels because of the gelling issue (additives don't cut it at -40f).
Mileage goes all to hell with the kero mix. Once in a while the snowplow tractor ends up with a tankful of mix when warm weather arrives and will rattle like hell until we run enough to fuel with #2 and reduce the proportion of kero.

Jim

PS - I may be wrong but I believe that "white gas" is rug, I do know that it is not kero

White gas and kerosene are most assuredly different distillates.

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Actually, 'white gas' is gasoline without cleaners, oncatne boosters, oxygenators, antiknock addives, etc. It will go 'poof' just like gasoline vapors, especially in a Coleman lantern. Don't ask me how I know...

The biggest difference between kerosene, AKA #1 fuel oil, and #2 Diesel Fuel is the viscosity and the absence of additives in the kerosene that are in the Diesel fuel and the BYU content. Clear kerosene is specially clean and sulphur free for unvented kerosene heaters so less pollutants are emitted.

There is slightly less BTU content in any fuel oil with a lower number but all have more BTU content than gasoline. I.E. #2 fuel oil has less BTUs than #3, #4, #5, and #6 fuel oils but more BTUs than #1 fuel oil ( kerosene).

Coleman fuel is certainly not kerosene. Kerosene would never work in any Coleman product. Even old gasoline won't work in a Coleman stove, it won't vaporise in the gas generator. This I know from experience. Leaded gas will destroy the heating element of catalytic heaters and possibly other additives in gasoline will do the same.


P E H

Coleman used to sell units that run on RUG. I saw them for a while in some sporting goods stores some years back. Haven't looked around lately to see if they still sold them.

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Does anyone know if B100 can be successfully burned in a kerosene heater? I gather the ambient temps are a factor for gelling, but I'd like to find out if it will ignite and burn properly. I hate the smell of kerosene smoke and I don't find bio to be unpleasant in the least.

It depends somewhat on the nature of the kerosene heater. I have heard some of the wick-type heaters work okay, but have heard others report problems. The "jet-type" (don't know the actual term for them-big long cylinder that shoots fire out the front-really loudly) work just fine on biodiesel from what I have been told.

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