This Technical Report provides the latest thinking described during a workshop on 1 June 2015 by national experts involved in the investigations, and proposes possible solutions to solve the diesel fuel filter plugging issues in these countries.<\/p>\n
For the purposes of this Technical Report, the terms \u201c% ( m\/m<\/i>)\u201d and \u201c% ( V\/V<\/i>)\u201d are used to represent respectively the mass fraction, \u00b5<\/i>, and the volume fraction, \u03c6<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Diesel blends and fuels. Cold filterability issues<\/b><\/p>\nPDF Catalog<\/h4>\n
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\n PDF Pages<\/th>\n PDF Title<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n \n 4<\/td>\n Contents Page <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 5<\/td>\n European foreword <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 6<\/td>\n Introduction <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 7<\/td>\n 1 Scope
2 Background to this Technical Report
3 Issues in specific European markets
3.1 UK experience <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n 8<\/td>\n Figure 1 \u2014 Average and maximum FBT (right y-axis) by IP 387 Procedure B, average Total Contamination in mg\/kg and average FAME content in % (V\/V) (left y-axis) from 111 samples of diesel fuel collected from service stations in 8 European countries <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 9<\/td>\n 3.2 Sweden <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 10<\/td>\n Figure 2 \u2014 Fuel filter replacement rate per 1 000 vehicles for one OEM (2 different model years) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 13<\/td>\n Figure 5 \u2014 The effects of prolonged low temperatures (\u221220 C) on blends of different FAMEs at various concentrations in Swedish MK1 diesel: dTME (left) and RME (right)
3.3 Italy <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n 14<\/td>\n 4 Cold operability rig tests
4.1 Infineum Freezer Rig <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n 15<\/td>\n Figure 6 \u2014 Schematic of the Infineum Freezer Rig
Figure 7 \u2014 Example of typical delta pressure curves produced by the Infineum freezer rig when testing fuels with good and bad low temperature filterability <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n 16<\/td>\n Figure 8 \u2014 Infineum freezer rig results for various retail diesel samples and lab blends <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 17<\/td>\n Figure 9 \u2014 Preliminary Infineum freezer rig data on experimental lab blends
4.2 PSA Filter Rig
Figure 10 \u2014 Correlation between FAME Cloud Point and saturated methyl ester content <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n 18<\/td>\n Figure 11 \u2014 Photograph of PSA low temperature filterability rig (left) and test cycle (right) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 19<\/td>\n Figure 12 \u2014 PSA rig test results obtained on B7 samples with different levels of saturated FAMEs
5 Filterability test developments
5.1 Total contamination test (EN 12662, WG 31) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n 20<\/td>\n 5.2 CS-FBT (WG 31)
5.3 Cold FBT (Energy Institute SC-B-5) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n 21<\/td>\n Figure 13 \u2014 Cold FBT results for B0 and B0 blended with 1 % (V\/V) FAME suspected of containing polyethylene <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 22<\/td>\n Figure 14 \u2014Cold FBT results at various test temperatures for a selection of UK market winter diesel samples <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 23<\/td>\n Figure 15 \u2014 Comparison between Cold FBT and Cold Soak – Cold FBT results for six fuels (filtration step conducted at \u22121 C)
6 Other experiences
6.1 Afton investigations <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n 24<\/td>\n Table 1 \u2014 FBT results for B10 blends of FAME made from various feedstocks in RF-79 reference fuel with SMGs added at different concentrations
Figure 16 \u2014 The effect on FBT of adding DCA to B10 blends of different FAMEs in RF-79 doped with SMGs <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n 25<\/td>\n Figure 17 \u2014 The effect on FBT of adding DCA to B10 blends of UCOME in RF-79 doped with varying concentrations of SGs
Figure 18 \u2014 FBT of B10 UCOME blends doped with varying concentrations of sodium and the effect of adding DCA <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n 26<\/td>\n Figure 19 \u2014 The influence of polyethylene on FBT
6.2 Argent experience with distilled TME <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n 27<\/td>\n Table 2 \u2014 Typical ranges of key quality parameters for FAME produced at the Argent plant <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 28<\/td>\n 6.3 Diesel fuel cold operability correlation (WG 34)
Figure 20 \u2014 Fuel factors influencing fuel filter plugging <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n 29<\/td>\n Figure 21 \u2014 Vehicle factors influencing fuel filter plugging
Figure 22 \u2014 Other factors influencing fuel filter plugging <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n 30<\/td>\n 7 Discussion and next steps <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 31<\/td>\n Bibliography <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \n\n
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