Aircraft In 2000

[Legbreaker]

Originally Posted by Vespers War

That one uses a small amount of diesel (as little as 5%) and injects high-proof alcohol from a second tank.

That's likely the method most mechanics use in T2K, substituting something else (vegetable oil perhaps) for the small amount of diesel.

[Vespers War]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

That's likely the method most mechanics use in T2K, substituting something else (vegetable oil perhaps) for the small amount of diesel.

I don't think vegetable oil will work. Most plant oils tend to have high autoignition temperatures (406C for cooking oil, 424C for canola, 435C for olive). Kerosene (which can be distilled from the liquid obtained from heating shale or coal) is at 220C, closer to diesel's 256C.

[Legbreaker]

Biodiesel is generally made from vegetable oil. https://www.thoughtco.com/make-biodi...ble-oil-605975

[Vespers War]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

Biodiesel is generally made from vegetable oil. https://www.thoughtco.com/make-biodi...ble-oil-605975

Oh, that would work. I thought you meant straight vegetable oil without the transesterification process used to turn it into biodiesel. There might be some temperature restrictions (palm oil biodiesel gels at 55F/13C and canola around 14F/-10C), and you need to replace some of the fittings or else the fuel will eat your hoses (like ethanol does for gasoline vehicles), but yeah, biodiesel would probably work at least as well as kerosene.