[Talk-us] amenity:fuel and fuel types for the US

Richard Welty rwelty at averillpark.net
Fri Aug 19 00:27:31 BST 2011


On 8/18/11 10:25 AM, Toby Murray wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Richard Welty<rwelty at averillpark.net>  wrote:
>
> So just tag it as fuel:octane_87, fuel:octane_89, etc. Not Sure about
> the kerosene. fuel:kerosene=yes would seem logical but I'm not sure
> what the non-taxable use has to do with things.

there are two grades of kerosene in the US, K-1 and K-2. i for the most part
only see K-1 around (which is the low sulfur variant and so much preferred).

kerosene=yes if you don't know the rating, otherwise
kerosene=k1
kerosene=k2

i understand that in the UK, they have grades c1, c2, etc, which fits 
right in
with this scheme

for diesel, there is a cetane rating, as well as a grade. grade would be 
interesting
to know, but because stations have been known to change off depending on
season and climate, keeping the information up to date would be insane. 
knowing
whether the diesel is low sulfur would have been interesting a few years 
ago, but
most of the world is now using low sulfur diesel for all road going 
applications.

richard




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