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Re: Sulfur as a fuel-borne lubricant

To: "Westerdale, Bob" <bwesterdale@edax.com>, triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Sulfur as a fuel-borne lubricant
From: "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 21:37:50 -0700
Organization: Barely enough
References: <D532BD4F055ED2119E8300A0C9E1C8CE1CCF74@EDAXNJ05>


"Westerdale, Bob" wrote:
> 
> Concerning the hope that Sulfur in Gasoline will provide lubrication-
> Very shortly it appears that they will removing all but a trace of S from
> gas.

This has already begun to happen with diesel. There was a big uproar
among truckers who felt that 1/2% levels were too low to adequately
lubricate the metering units, but, by and large, there's not been a rash
of failures due to that mandated drop. 

I would guess that levels for gasoline will be dropped to a similar
level, but the level will probably never go down below around 1/4%,
since that is roughly the amount which is chemically bound in the fuel
molecules, and extraction would be prohibitively expensive.

Cheers.

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