2006-12-19 14:36:34 · 11 answers · asked by cokeman652001 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
can it be used in a home furnace?
2006-12-19 14:45:01 · update #1
No, but it could very well be used to heat your home in an oil burning furnace. Off road diesel contains more sulfur, which adds lubrication to "off road" vehicles fuel systems (injector pumps, fuel pumps). However I would not use this in a kerosene powered space heater, at least not in a tightly enclosed space. If you are using diesel in your home furnace, I recommend using some method to prevent the Diesel from turning to "gel" at low outdoor temperatures. A heavy equipment operator "friend" of mine found out by accident that off road diesel will definitely work in oil burning furnaces when he ran out of home heating fuel one harsh winter. He just put some of his equipment fuel in the furnaces fuel tank, it fired up, and due to the price difference, He's been using it exclusively now for over 7 years.
2006-12-19 17:17:14 · answer #1 · answered by Patsy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kerosene and diesel are almost the same thing just a slight difference in their ignition temperature. In the UK Kerosene and Gas oil are used, gas oil being the off road version of diesel(we pay duty on road fuel at the pumps)Again the difference is mostly the flash point of the fuels and they are run at different pump pressures in an oil fired boiler generally using different nozzles. Also generally Kerosene is a cleaner fuel(better filtered)and the fumes are not as obnoxious.
2016-05-22 22:53:35 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's different but pretty close. Diesel's chemical composition is C12H26, while heating oil is usually C14H30. Off-road diesel doesn't burn at normal temps when not under pressure. It also contains some heavy oils, and burns at a lower temperature. Both diesel and home heating oils are in the same family of "distillate fuel oils", though. But diesel will burn very dirty, if at all. I think you can actually use off-road diesel in place of the heating oil, but if you're caught, you can get a $10,000 fine in the US.
2006-12-19 16:49:56 · answer #3 · answered by Rockstar 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, it's the same, but the household heating oil has a dye in it, so police can tell if someone is using the tax free stuff for personal use.
Go ahead and use it.
2006-12-19 15:05:09 · answer #4 · answered by Lion J 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've run my Mercedes for the last twenty years on heating oil
2006-12-19 21:49:40 · answer #5 · answered by Chris 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
home is no 2 off road is no 1 no 2 thicker and not as clean. i heard it plugs up injectors on engines
2006-12-19 14:40:54 · answer #6 · answered by robert c 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
make sure to get number 1 diesel fuel but fumes are smelly . white kerosene works great. the police do not cheak cylinder residue it is the dept of trans or weighmaster .
2006-12-19 15:31:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
liefler oil stewartstown
2014-01-10 07:52:56 · answer #8 · answered by Bill 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no please dont try this, learned the hard way ok learned in iraq what it will do ok you eather need kerosine or fuel oils good luck
2006-12-19 14:49:47 · answer #9 · answered by Shannon J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if they were the same why would they spell them different,, or grade them different,, or charge different prices per gallon?? ggeezz are we blissful????
2006-12-19 14:46:06 · answer #10 · answered by fuzzykjun 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋