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Maintenance Section
General Fuel Information
NOTICE
The footnotes are key part of the Perkins "Specifica-
tion for Distillate Diesel Fuel" Table. Read ALL of the
footnotes.
Table 15
Property
UNITS
Aromatics
%Volume
Ash
%Weight
Carbon Residue on 10%
%Weight
Bottoms
-
Cetane Number
(1)
Cloud Point
°C
-
Copper Strip Corrosion
Distillation
°C
Density at 15 °C (59 °F)
(2)
kg/M
Flash Point
°C
-
Thermal Stability
Pour Point
°C
Sulfur
(3)
%mass
Kinematic Viscosity
(4)
MM2/S (cSt)
Water and sediment
% weight
Water
% weight
Sediment
% weight
Gums and Resins
(5)
mg/100mL
mm
Lubricity correctedwear
scar diameter at 60 °C
(140 °F).
(6)
-
Fuel Cleanliness
(7)
Trace Metals
(8)
mg/mg
Oxidation Stability
g/m^3
"Perkins Specification for Distillate Diesel Fuel"
Requirements
35% maximum
0.01% maximum
0.35% maximum
40 minimum
The cloud point must not
exceed the lowest expected
ambient temperature.
No. 3 maximum
10% at 238° C (460.4° F)
maximum
90% at 350° C (662° F)
maximum
3
800 minimum and 860
maximum
legal limit
Minimum of 80% reflec-
tance after aging for 180 mi-
nutes at 150 °C (302 °F)
6 °C (42.8 °F) minimum be-
low ambient temperature
0.0015 % maximum
The viscosity of the fuel that
is delivered to the fuel injec-
tion pump. 1.4 minimum
and 4.5 maximum
0.05% maximum
0.05% maximum
0.05% maximum
10 mg per 100 mL
maximum
0.52 maximum
"ISO 18/16/13"
Max 1 or non-detectable
Max 25
"ASTM"Test
"ISO/Other"Test
"D1319"
"ISO 3837"
"D482"
"ISO 6245"
"D524"
"ISO 4262"
"D613 or D6890"
"ISO 5165"
"D2500"
"ISO 3015"
"D130"
"ISO 2160"
"D86"
"ISO 3405"
No equivalent test
"ISO 3675""ISO 12185"
"D93"
"ISO 2719"
"D6468"
No equivalent test
"D97"
"ISO 3016"
"D5453"
"ISO 20846"
"D445"
"ISO 3405"
"D1796"
"ISO 3734"
"D1744"
No equivalent test
"D473"
"ISO 3735"
"D381"
"ISO 6246"
"D6079"
"ISO 12156-1"
"D7619"
"ISO 4406"
"D7111"
"D2274"
"ISO 12205"
M0087475-06
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