What is ATF or Aviation Turbine Fuel? How its different from petrol or diesel?

Question

Pls explain.

Answer 1

It is a hydrocarbon distillate (JP Series), much akin to kerosene.

Petrol is a higher distillate as compared to JP while the diesel fuels are a lower grade comparatively. Main differences, technically, are  in the octane rating of the former and the ketane rating of the latter and the respective flash points.

Answer 2

Diesel, jet fuel and kerosene are basically the same thing.  Petrol (Gasoline) is contains more engery per mass and is much more volatile.

Gasoline (petrol) smells really nice, and jet fuel isnt nearly as pleasant

You can use gasoline in some turbine (jet) engines, but never will you see a piston (non diesel) be able to use jet fuel.

Answer 3

It isn't what you'd call high octane, and it's more like kerosene than diesel. Those two are still closely related as they both ignite under pressure.

ATF is hard to ignite with a match when cold, so much less volatile than petrol.

I'm sure there's a great explanation in wikipedia.org, but I'm tired of pasting the link.

Answer 4

its high octane fule and its hard to burn and when it does burn it burns at lower temp than regular desiel

Answer 5

diesel, kerosene, and the various iterations of jet fuel are all basically the same base with different levels of refinement, kerosene being the lowest. gasoline is more volatile than kerosene based fuels.

Answer 6

Well in leman terms its high octane fuel. really really high octane fuel