2006-11-28 14:17:24 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
Different distillations of petroleum. Gasoline is one chemical compound, diesel is closer to parafin, however diesel, parafin, and jet fuel are all types of refined kerosene. Fuel oil is a lesser grade diesel. Just different types of the same stuff.
2006-11-28 14:20:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sorry wizard of ID (above) but a jet engine is an internal combustion engine. and its methods although different from a piston or automobile engine are very similar. Intake, compression, ignition, combustion and exhaust. Admittedly the fuels are different, Jet, diesel and kerosene all very similar and contain allot more heat energy but have a higher flash point and petrol or gasoline is not has less energy and a lower flash point. However, I do mix jet fuel with my diesel in my car. It works fine and I even know people burn it in their furnaces at home. Plus it's free:)
2006-12-01 13:21:40 · answer #2 · answered by islander 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The density of diesel is about 850 grams per liter whereas gasoline has a density of about 720 g/l, about 15% less.
Jet fuel is the mixer of kerosene and parffin mixture which is manufactured under internationally standardised specification.
Desiel is distilled oil refined from the gasoline.
2006-11-28 15:24:35 · answer #3 · answered by Intelligentia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'gasoline' is americanism for 'petrol'. And 'Fuel' is a generic term for a combustible liquid which can be put to good use.
Petrol, Diesel, and Aviation Fuel (Kerosene) have different combustion properties and are used for different purposes. Petrol and Diesel are used in Internal Combustion Engines. Apart from the method of converting combustion energy to kinetic energy these two types of engines have nothing in common. Their technologies are totally different. Petrol and diesel are available at different distillation points in the extraction from the same crude. More additives and refnining processes make them even more different from each other.
Aviation fuel cannot be used in internal combustion engines. It is used in engines built on the ram-jet principle. The crude source for this fuel is different.
2006-11-29 15:03:44 · answer #4 · answered by WizardofID 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Each is refined to a higher degree also known as octane level. Jet fuel has the highest octane since fighter jets need a high performance fuel. Diesel fuel is the least refined.
2016-05-23 00:03:08 · answer #5 · answered by Charmaine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Deiesel explodes at a lower temperature than gasoline. Also a jet needs a higher octane of fuel to burn hot enough to get the jet off the ground.
2006-11-28 14:20:11 · answer #6 · answered by stick man 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are different types of ingredients in all of the fuels
2006-12-02 05:11:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because each engine has different requirements ,and needs different fuels to operate correctly,,other wise nothing would ever run right if we depended on one fuel to do everything,,good luck.
2006-11-28 14:30:13 · answer #8 · answered by dodge man 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
thats the way they are made. if they were all made the same then you would not have 3 to choose from . and every one likes a choice
2006-11-29 23:16:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are prerpared from fractional distilation and they purified diffrently
2006-11-28 14:55:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋