Diesel

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• Diesel fuel in general is any liquid fuel used in diesel engines
• Ultra-low-sulphur diesel (ULSD) is a standard for defining diesel fuel with substantially lowered sulphur contents
• The principal measure of diesel fuel quality is its cetane number. A higher cetane number indicates that the fuel ignites more readily when sprayed into hot compressed air.

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