Jet Fuel VS Diesel VS Gasoline how they burn and what color are they.

hello welcome to my channel I don't know I'm gonna call it yet but we'll find out my name is Curtis and I have two goals first office is to inform you and secondly is to see how much money you can make on youtube so on every video I post I will say how much money I made so far and since this is the first video I haven't made anything yet what we got here is a whole bunch of different kinds of fuel this is jet fuel the reason I made this video because I don't like the myth that jet fuel is so flammable and so exotic and so dangerous so I got all the different fuels we can compare them all this is jet fuel jet a so those of you that have that 737 sitting in the backyard you'll use this diesel diesel obviously in semi trucks and pickup trucks and yeah some cars that run on diesel heating oil for those on the East Coast a lot of people use heating oil instead of propane or natural gas but obviously a lot still use the natural gas but some people use heating oil so that's what that is kerosene okay obviously you know what kerosene is using the old lights they don't use it too much anymore but here you go a gas or 100 low lead so those of you that have your Cessnas out there cessna will piston aircraft okay internal combustion engines not jet aircraft but piston type aircraft this is what you'll use and finally good old-fashioned gasoline everybody knows what that is using your cars we also as a side note got butane this is often used in the lighters and propane which you use to heat your house and cook your barbeque so let's get started working about keeping catching two these on fire alright so first on the docket is jet fuel I was actually surprised when I started doing this that how many different colors there are of the different fuels but jet fuel is totally clear as you can see I'm not seeing any color some people say it has a straw color if you look it up on like Wikipedia or something like that but to me it looks totally clear and we're gonna see if this stuff burns let's open this up alright and let's do this oh it just goes out let's put another one in try it slower here remember this is jet fuel same thing they put in Boeing 737s Airbus a380 okay got that match burnin nice and slow in there and no it just quits all right try a different method all right you probably can't see the flame on there but you can probably hear it here there we go that's kind of cool there's thermals in there but it's not burnin not burning flames right in there okay so why is that well it has to be atomized atomized so in a jet engine they have nozzles that spray it in a fine mist fine mist it'll burn alright let's try that so changing my setup I got a little squirt sprayer and we got the propane torch go on if you can hear it a little bit it's pretty quiet we're gonna try spraying a little bit of jet fuel atomized individual atoms okay that's what makes it flammable but yet well you don't doesn't do this get all that diesel out of there we're sorry diesel jet fuel all right so that's jet fuel so next up we got diesel now diesel kinda has a green color to it they're kind of yellow me straw and tah-dah it's like a little bit thicker than jet fuel in fact a lot of times it's called diesel oil because it is it's very oily if you get it on your fingers it's just like slippery stuff on them well let's see if this stuff burns all right open her up nope it went out as soon as I drop it in the fuel there's just a little bit of the wood still burning but it went out see that nothing try it one more time I went out again all right let's get some more heat out all right so yeah torch here running we got a little bit of flame on it look at that it's burning just a little bit put the cover back on sex itself in there we go so a diesel does burn just barely alright next up I have heating oil alright now some of you might know my secret about this heating oil is actually exactly the same as diesel what's the different colors they actually dye heating oil this red color because you don't pay road tax on it alright so you know this federal government charges I think 17 cents per gallon for diesel and the state I think the state of Washington is 41 cents per gallon for fuel that's used on the road however if you heat your house with heating oil you don't pay that tax so what's to prevent you from just putting this in your car well the color if you are pulled over and they dip your tank and they find out there's red fuel in there it is a big fine but these two should be exactly the same diesel heating oil same thing bulchek same thing open her up and we'll throw a match in nope went out alright one more time throw a match come on wait ahh I went out let's get out the big guns hmmm this was not lighting no well so now you know why it's red it's when I make it it's not really red it's just diesel and they just make it red so that way you can't put it in your truck next up kerosene now I know it's red so where I got the kerosene it was at a pump just like you fuel your car up and I believe they dyed it red just see it in putting your truck because kerosene can actually be put in the diesel engine as well so this regular diesel during the summer it's fine works great but when you get it cold enough turns into gel it's kind of like a candle wax I'll show you that in a second here but this stuff kerosene doesn't turn into a gel until a lot colder temperatures but it can be used in a diesel so let's see if it burns same thing eventually I gotta drop it in because it burns to my finger so try it again it's kind of a puff there nope nothing oh there's a little flame on her I don't think it's there anymore so you can get it to barely burn a lot of what it is is it's just heating up so it's it's releasing enough molecules into the atmosphere evaporating so just as a quick recap these for fuels do not really burn these are all kind of in the same family in fact they're all pretty much interchangeable there are propeller driven aircraft that are powered by diesel engines that can they'll run just fine on Keros or jet a kerosene is used in Alaska and during the winter when diesel fuel would gel up and put in a diesel engine these two are exactly the same except for the coloring we've got diesel and heating oil these are all very similar jet fuel the characteristics that they want is that it doesn't absorb water so you don't want water getting in the in the fuel which diesel is are known renowned for your absorbing water you also don't want it gelling up when you're at altitude I mean they fly over the North Pole of this stuff diesel fuel heating oil will gel up when they get too cold so shed a more refined a a little bit better but these are all in the same family all right now get to the interesting one this right here is 100 low lead or AB gas as they call it it is a little bit blue you can see a little bit of blue in there they they add the dye to make it blue but yeah so this is used in piston engines required to fly now it's it's very similar to regular auto gas they don't put any ethanol in it because ethanol would absorb water they don't want a VA ssin fuel absorbing water because if it does and the engine pulls that in it won't run if your car quits running on the side of the road you know shoot bad day if your engine quits running in your airplane really bad day and they also add a little bit of lead to this to make the octane rating 100 now they're trying to phase out the lead so there might not be a hundred low lead but there will be a bagasse some replacement for this stuff all right so I have yeah one of the ones is more likely to actually catch fire so we'll see here just a second oh I see got a little bit of flame on the top there it's not a huge flame but it is burning okay this is used in a regular piston sparkplug type engine that explains why it burns it has to atomize in a carburetor unlike diesel put this on here there you go put it out just like that and the last one that we're gonna do right now gasoline now i'm sure everybody is familiar with gasoline it has kind of a yellow color it's actually very similar to diesel here here's the diesel and here's the gasoline it's a little bit lighter straw yellow diesels a little bit darker I mean Diesel's a lot thicker gasoline is like water diesel is more like as an oil they're not anything close to the same but the colors very similar and gasoline I'm pretty sure as you know as well as I do it burns this will be the one that burns the best I'm guessing for now and you can smell it you smell that that is a good sign that it is flammable because it takes to ask to a demise in order to burn alright a little step back here just a little bit okay so there you go it burns very similar to aviation fuel 100 low lead a little bit bigger you can just put it out putting the cover on there there we go burns nice and as it heats up he'll start burning more obviously so that's why when it started it wasn't that big but there we go see got a little flame there that's regular gasoline alright so these two are in the same family 100 low lead of gas and gasoline they both require a spark plug to run they have high octane ratings and they both evaporate a little bit you know if you leave them out you can smell them more diesel and jet fuel yeah I mean they smell a little bit but not to the extent that these ones do they evaporate that evaporation is what's burning not the liquid all right well I hope you learned something today and enjoyed it so once again I did burn this jet fuel using a spray nozzle however these three will burn the same way the heating oil diesel and kerosene all will do the same thing and they're in the same family they're very similar to each other despite the different colors remember the dyes and these two that's why they're red they're dyed they're not actually that color and these two are in the same family and the blue is actually a dye as well so you know that it's 100 low lead for your airplanes so on an airport these two fuels are available your four piston aircraft four jet aircraft you don't want to mix the two so they put a little bit of dye in the the piston aircraft fuel and then then regular gasoline they're in the same family they both require spark plugs to ignite have high octane ratings lower octane ratings and the last two these have to be contained because they will all evaporate anyway thanks for watching hope you enjoyed it all right so just to prove that diesel can do it here you go yeah okay that's diesel burn is actually better than jet fuel so here's the same thing this is heating oil same setup just to show that it's flammable oh yeah okay proves the point

Channel: Just Think

Views: 4,906,542

Rating: 4.7949729 out of 5

Keywords: Diesel Fuel (Fuel), Gasoline (Fuel), Engine, Jet Fuel, Fire, Jet Engine (Invention), Burn, Burning, Heating oil, Kerosine, Atomization

Id: 7nL10C7FSbE

Length: 14min 14sec (854 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 13 2013

Reddit Comments

[u/infinex]

He wants to make money on youtube by showing how things don't blow up. Bold strategy.

[u/WriterDave]

True test of how many times in one video my brain can be wrong.

No..no...nononononono you idiot what are you...Oh. Hm.

[u/JoeyDubbs]

This video is 2 years old, his most recent video is also 2 years old and in it he says he's made $80 from YouTube, but hadn't yet received a check.

[u/boski39]

That was way more informative than I expected. TIL

[u/surfwax]

Every time he holds that goddamn propane tank up to his lapel mic, I think he's going to set himself on fire.

[u/Dukenukem31]

Pretty sure Jet-A1 IS just kerosene.

[u/macnicool]

My dad says butane is a bastard gas

[u/Goesan]

What happened to showing the jell-like process that he said he would demonstrate? I'm disappointed curtis

[u/ProfitsOfProphets]

I'm disappointed he didn't spray all of them.