Abstract
For a high speed diesel engine, gas oil and Marine diesel oil (MDF) are used in general, but, on account of the utilization of alternative energy, and in order to decrease particulates and nitrogen oxides (Nox) in exhaust gas, blending alcohol with petro-fuels has been studied widely in many institutes.
Here, separation rate of blended fuels of ethanol and gas oil or LCO (Light Cycle Oil) was measured in order to study the stability of these blended fuels fundamentally.
In general LCO has not good industrial usage because it's cetane number is not high enough to be used in a diesel engine recently, but in this paper, it is found that LCO blending has shown astrong effect of improving the solubility of ethanol into gas oil.
So, this finding will give a new industrial usage to LCO.
