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    The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) sets standards for diesel fuel quality that refineries must follow in production and sellers must ensure are maintained. The document outlines the ASTM D975 limits for five categories of diesel fuel for properties like flash point, water content, distillation temperature, viscosity, ash, sulfur, corrosion, and cetane number. Compliance with these standards is enforced by state and federal agencies through inspections of fuel resellers.

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    Diesel Fuel ASTM Limits 
     
    The American Society of Testing and Materials is responsible for setting the standards by which 
    commercial fuel quality is measured.  Refineries are required to incorporate these limits into their 
    production specifications and resellers are inspected by state and federal agencies to make sure that 
    these specifications are maintained.  
      
    The following table documents the limits for the five categories of diesel fuel defined by ASTM 
     

    ASTM  D975 Requirements for Diesel Fuel 
    Property  Test  Low  # 1‐D Low Sulfur  # 2‐D # 4‐D
    Metho Sulfur  # 2‐D 
    d   # 1‐D 
    Flash, ° F, min  D 93 100 100 126 126  131
    Water and sediment, %   D 2709 0.05 0.05 0.05  0.05 0.05
    volume, max  D 1796 
    Distillation temp °F @ 90% recovered  D 86 550 550 540 540  NR
    min  640  640 
    max 
    Viscosity, 104° F, cSt  D 445 1.3 1.3 1.9 1.9  5.5
    min  2.4  2.4  4.1  4.1  24.0 
    max 
    Ash, %  max  D 482 0.01 0.01 0.01  0.01 0.1
    Sulfur, % max  D 2622 0.05 0.5 0.05  0.5  2.0
    Copper Strip Corrosion,  D 130 No. 3 No. 3 No. 3  No. 3 NR
     3 hr at 122° F max 
    Cetane #, min  D613 40 40 40 40  30
    Cetane #, min or  D 976 40 NR 40 NR  NR
    Aromaticity, % vol, max  D1319  35  35 
    Ramsbottom 10% dist.   D 524 0.15 0.15 0.35  0.35 NR
    carbon residue 
     
      
    NR = Not Required 
     

     
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