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Old 01-18-2023, 12:45 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary View Post
IIRC, white diesel (diesel mixed with a certain percent of water) is shown to reduce both particulates and HC emissions at the expense of higher CO emissions.
Never heard of such white Diesel, yet adding alcohol to regular Diesel fuel in order to turn moisture contaminations into something combustible used to be quite common here.


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Water injection seems to help diesels get better fuel mileage too.
Having driven a Brazilian Nissan XTerra with the MWM turbodiesel engine, it really seemed to go better in a rainy day.
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