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Old 8th Aug 2012, 20:40
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stiknruda
 
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I would NOT put it in the central htg system! CH boilers are expecting the low volatility of a heptane ring not the bang power of an octane one.

MJ: JetA-1 and htg paraffin come out of the refinery as DPK - dual purpose kero, as it can go to the airport or into a htg system.

Putting Avgas into a burner unit can have disasterous effects. As villagers found out when the "kero" they thought they had "liberated" from a trans-sub-Saharan pipeline was actually Avgas. Fifty eight dead and 32 rondavels razed to the ground. Nampula Province 1992/3.
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