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 08-25-2004, 12:23 Post: 94454
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A gallon of gasoline contains 125,000 BTU's of energy (or available work). A gallon of deisel fuel contains 155,000 BTU's. With almost 25% more available energy per gallon, diesel seems like an obvious place to look for efficiencies. With either fuel, a hybrid will be limited to extracting a defined amount of potential and kenetic energy from every gallon in the most efficient way possible. It is a balancing act between trapping, storing, and re-using energy and the additional losses experienced by doing so.






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To say that diesel is left over from refining gasoline isn't exactly what happens. Diesel and other long hydrocarbons are removed from the distillation process at a lower temperature than korosene and gasoline. Diesel has a longer hydrocarbon chain and thus a higher boiling point. It condenses lower in the tower and is removed. Diesel and other heavy oils can then be further "cracked" in a cracking tower and have their hydrocarbon chains furhter reduced to produce gasoline or other shorter chain by-products.

I'm pretty sure Golden Goebel was left over after brewing Strohs, and Red White and Blue was the residue of brewing Pabst Blue Ribbon, but diesel isn't really residue from refining crude oil to gasoline.






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