Diesel fuels, marine

Cowan MJ, Jenkins LJ Jr. 1981. Navy toxicity study of shale and petroleum JP-5 aviation fuel and diesel fuel marine. In Griest WH, Guerin MR, Coffin DL, eds. Health effects investigation of oil shale development. Ann Arbor, MI Ann Arbor Science Publishers, Inc., 129-139. 

High-carbon-residue values for marine diesel fuel, marine gas oil, and heavy marine bunker fuel can contribute significantly to exhaust system deposit problems. Deposit formation on exhaust ports and exhaust turbines have been linked directly to high carbon residue in fuel. 

DOT CLASSIFICATION 3 Label None SAFETY PROFILE Mildly toxic by ingestion. A moderate skin irritant. Questionable carcinogen. Flammable when exposed to heat or flame can react vigorously with oxidizing materials. To fight fire, use CO2, dry chemical. When heated to decomposition it emits acrid smoke and irritating fumes. See also DIESEL EXHAUST, DIESEL EXHAUST EXTRACT, DIESEL EXHAUST PARTICLES, DIESEL FUEL MARINE. 

DIESEL FUEL pOT) see DHE900 DIESEL FUEL pop see FOPOOO DIESEL FUEL MARINE see DHE750... 

The National Research Council Subcommittee on Permissible Exposure Levels for Military Fuels reviewed studies on the potential toxic effects of JP-5, JP-8, and diesel fuel marine (DFM) on the nervous system (NRC 1996). The vapors from those fuels contain a mixture of volatile hydrocarbons,... 

The U.S. Navy is in the final stages of designing a strategic sealift ship to transport already-fueled vehicles—armored tanks, tanker trucks, other trucks of various sizes, trailers, jeeps, and helicopters. Prefueling will eliminate the need for fueling at docking and will permit deployment of the vehicles as soon as they are unloaded from the ship. All the military vehicles transported on the ship are designed to use jet-propulsion (JP) fuels JP-5 or JP-8 to avoid the need for different fuels. Diesel fuel marine (DFM) is used to operate the ship. 

Diesel Fuel Marine Physical inspections of pilot plant... 

The bulk of the Navyfs vehicles utilize middle distillate fuels a kerosene type jet fuel, JP-5, for aircraft and diesel fuel marine, DFM, for ships and boats. Reasonable yields of these fuels can be obtained from shale oil. Further, shale crude oil has a good hydrogen content which allows upgrading to finished fuel with modest additions of expensive hydrogen. Thus the interest in Navy fuels from shale oil. 

Testing of the Shale-II JP-5 jet fuel, which is currently underway in four different gas turbine engines, shows good combustion performance. No problems have been encountered. Likewise, testing of ship steam boilers, marine gas turbines, and diesel engines on the Shale-II diesel fuel marine (DFM) is demonstrating highly acceptable performance. 

The U.S. Navy has been involved for some time in the development of Navy fuels from alternative sources (shale oil, tar sands and coal). As a part of this effort, the Naval Research Laboratory and the Naval Air Propulsion Center have been studying the characteristics of these fuels (.1, 2). NKL and NAPC are currently participating in a program to characterize the products from the Shale-II refining process conducted by the Standard Oil Company of Ohio (SOHIO) at their refinery in Toledo, Ohio. This paper is concerned with a part of this program and is a surrmary of the work on the physical and related properties of three military type fuels derived from shale JP-5 and JP-8 jet turbine fuels, and diesel fuel marine (DEM) (3, 5). Another paper of this symposium (6) will discuss the chemical characterization of the fuels. 

Diesel fuel, marine (Vol. 45 1989) (NB Overall evaluation upgraded from 3 to 2B with supporting evidence from other data relevant to the evaluation of carcinogenicity and its mechanisms)... 

Figure 9. Total ion chromatogram obtained from the capillary SFC-MS analysis of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon fraction of a diesel fuel marine.

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