Some joke over here is selling "B24 biodiesel" on CL :

So I sent an email asking what was in it (with reply):
30% Cetane.......

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Sounds like a blender trying to fool you that its really biodiesel. I believe 'cetane' is a rating not an ingreedient.

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Correct-a-mundo...

REAL biodiesel would be made from (roughly) 77+% veg oil, 22% methanol, -1% lye. No ethanol, unless you were completely replacing the methanol with it and no "cetane" as an ingredient.

B24 would have two ingredients: 76% D2 and 24% biodiesel.

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Cetane is a chemical, AKA (IUPAC name) Hexadecane. C16H34. NOT to give one of my organic chemistry lectures but it's a chain (in 'n' form) of single bonded carbon and hydrogen atoms that will ignite/combust under pressure and a little heat.

Pure cetane is rated a cetane number of 100.
In diesel engine terms it is a rating of ease of ignition,
BUT I DO AGREE that this back yard oil baron is

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I actually learned that CETANE is not only a number but a chemical as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetane

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#1995 E320 Touring
#1985 300D Sedan
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Like octane, in fuel its not an actual chemical but a comparison rating.

Either way, ethanol+diesel engine=bad. Ethanol is hygroscopic.

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B-24? I thought this was about the WWll B-24 Liberator.

charlie

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If its truly B24 do you think he might sell me the 76% of D2 only for $1.40 a gal??? I'm paying 2.40 currently.

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I'd visit him, have him demonstrate the fuel by pouring it into one of his OWN diesels....then running it for a while....and see what happens.

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