{"id":87300,"date":"2020-07-06T20:31:51","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T15:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=16238"},"modified":"2020-07-06T20:31:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T15:01:51","slug":"explained-what-is-winter-diesel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-is-winter-diesel\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: What is winter diesel?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> India\u2019s armed forces may soon be using winter diesel for operations in high altitude areas such as Ladakh where winter temperatures plummet to extremely low levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Winter Diesel: <\/strong>It is a specialised fuel that was introduced by Indian Oil Corporation(IOC) for high altitude regions and low-temperature regions such as Ladakh where ordinary diesel can become unusable.<\/li><li><strong>Why can\u2019t we use regular Diesel? <\/strong>The<strong> <\/strong>flow characteristics of regular diesel change at such low temperatures and using it may be detrimental to vehicles.<\/li><li><strong>Features of Winter Diesel:<\/strong><ul><li>Winter diesel contains additives to maintain lower viscosity so that it can be used in temperatures as low as -30\u00b0C.<\/li><li>It has higher cetane rating \u2014 an indicator of the combustion speed of diesel and compression needed for ignition.<\/li><li>It has lower sulphur content which would lead to lower deposits in engines and better performance.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: India\u2019s armed forces may soon be using winter diesel for operations in high altitude areas such as Ladakh where winter temperatures plummet to extremely low levels. Facts: Winter Diesel: It is a specialised fuel that was introduced by Indian Oil Corporation(IOC) for high altitude regions and low-temperature regions such as Ladakh where ordinary diesel&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-is-winter-diesel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: What is winter diesel?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[5048],"class_list":["post-87300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-winter-diesel","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704861102},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}