Dave's Energy

Saturday, December 17, 2005

Fischer-Tropsch diesel

Interesting article on F-T diesel. I'm amazed at the extremely low aromatic content of the resulting fuel (<3%), which is key to reducing soot/UHC emissions. And the high concentration of parafins gives the fuel a nice, high cetane number. However, in producing gasoline, they'll need to reduce the level of parafins in order to boost the octane number, but this isn't difficult.