Kerosene

What is Kerosene

Kerosene is a distillate in between gasoline and diesel fuel, which is used mainly to power jet engines for Aircrafts and military applications. To improve the cold flow properties if necessary (countries like Russia, China, Bolivia, etc...), kerosene may be used in exceptional cases. Any kerosene addition should be done in consultation with the selling oil company. The cold properties will improve by approximately ~2°C per 10% addition of kerosene. Kerosene addition will decrease density, viscosity and cetane number. Additionally, kerosene will make the lubricity worse (leading to possible engine deterioration and fuel injection system wear) and can increase drastically the Sulfur content of the fuel (leading to exhaust gases after-treatment system deterioration, and then higher exhaust emissions). In exceptional cases (extreme cold climate needs), kerosene may be added to diesel fuel according to below chart: