Regarding my reply to Borsuq about Brazilian Diesel

"BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion" (pbs) 01/04/2014 at 12:26 • Filed to: None

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According to further info lifted from the Petrobrás website, there are now two types of diesel available in Brazil, regular and S10, also known as Diesel Podium. Regular diesels are non-filtered and contain 5% in biodiesel and up to 500 ppm of sulfur. High sulfur content seems to be the defining characteristic of Brazilian fuels by the way.

Anyways, for common rail engines, they now recommend the use of the new S10/Podium diesels, introduced in january of 2013, which is filtered and contains no more than 10 ppm of sulfur and should make engines last longer. I couldn't get any info on whether Podium Diesel is sealed at the plant, like Podium gas is, though, so I've no idea whether stations are able to cut it with other chemicals or not...

Dunno if it makes thigs clearer, but I hope it does, I don't know a whole lot about this stuff, haha...

. . > BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion 01/04/2014 at 19:23

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In the EU diesel oil cannot contain sulflur. Unfortunately, this means the end of 1,5 million km diesel engines from the past that were able to achieve huge mileages because diesel oil that was rich in sulflur provided excellent lubriacation.

. . > . . 01/04/2014 at 20:06

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*Sulfur, not 'sulflur'. Duh. And lubrication, not whatever I wrote in there.

Never Oppo drunk.

BlazinAce - Doctor of Internal Combustion > . . 01/04/2014 at 20:19

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Amen, I did that mistake once and the results were kinda embarrassing. Not as bad as what I went on to find around the house, but still. Embarrassing!