Abstract
Diesel fuels were stored in glass bottles at 54.4/sup 0/C (130/sup 0/F) or at 98.9/sup 0/C (210/sup 0/F). Some of the bottles were soft glass; some were borosilicate glass. Fuel degradation was measured by the change in light transmission and light scattering and by the amount of insoluble residue and soluble gum formed. Diesel fuel stored in borosilicate glass bottles deteriorated much more rapidly than the same fuel stored in soft glass bottles. Additional experiments showed that soft glass inhibited fuel degradation, while borosilicate glass was essentially inert toward the fuel. The effect of soft glass varied with the fuel. Soft glass greatly improved the stability of some fuels, but had almost no effect on other fuels. Therefore, storage of fuels in soft glass bottles could give misleading results in assessing the relative stabilities of distillate fuels.
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