Why Diesel Is The Best Choice As Generator Fuel

Generators need no introduction as an integral part of power production and back-up systems. Be it for industry, offices, hospitals, hotels, homes, scientific research laboratories, ships or military establishments – generators have a crucial role to play for their smooth and uninterrupted operations.

The range of capabilities and features associated with generators may vary from case to case, although there are a few standard manufacturing practices to meet the widely disparate range of requirements. One cannot expect that a generator for a restaurant will be similar in size to that of a generator used in a gigantic cargo carrier. 

However, generators need fuel so that the basic operating principle of converting mechanical energy to electrical energy can be carried out. Every generator has an engine, attached with which is a rotor. The engine produces rotational movement for the rotor, which works in coordination with the stator by obeying the principles of electromagnetic induction. This is fairly complicated process but has been sort of oversimplified in this post for the sake of the non-technical readers.

Now, to run the engine, some sort of fuel is necessary. In fact, the basic requirement of any generator is the fuel itself. The engine design, output characteristics and a host of other technical matters are intricately related to the choice of the fuel. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the longevity and resale value of generators are also dependent on the choice of fuel that powers the engine, because the fuel itself determines the other aspects.

Coming to the popularity of diesel as the favorite choice for fuel, there are several factors that make it the best choice. The reasons are stated below:

·         Availability: Diesel is widely available across all parts of the world, as it has been a primary choice for automotives, especially the heavy ones like buses, trucks, trains, etc. There are also a major portion of the existing cars that run on diesel. Therefore, the supply chain of diesel is quite strong, and this ensures that it will be available readily.

·         Price: The price of diesel is low as compared to other fuel varieties, mainly due to the large usage of diesel as an automotive fuel for the major period of the automotive history. Besides, diesel being less refined than gas makes it a bit less costlier, as the cost of refining doesn’t add up to a great extent.

·         Physical properties: Diesel has low freezing point and greater viscosity as compared to gas. This makes the transportation of diesel through pipelines easier than gas, especially through difficult terrains and cold climates where temperatures hover around zero degree. Most importantly, it also has a bit higher ignition temperature as compared to gas, which means that it is not as dangerously inflammable as that of gas. Also, it doesn’t evaporate easily.

·         Design and Cost: Diesel makes the design of engine must simpler. This makes the engines of Diesel Generators more robust, adding to the longevity of the generator engines. Quite naturally, Used Diesel Generators usually claim high resale value as compared to their gas counterparts.