Editing Diesel fuel (section)

=== Other uses ===
Poor quality diesel fuel has been used as an extraction agent for [[liquid–liquid extraction]] of [[palladium]] from [[nitric acid]] mixtures.<ref name="chemabstracts">{{cite book|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Chemical Abstracts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AGMcAQAAMAAJ&q=high+sulfur+diesel+fuel+palladium+nitric+acid+liquid-liquid+extraction|volume=110|location=Washington D.C.|publisher=American Chemical Society|date=13 March 1989|access-date=28 July 2014}}</ref> Such use has been proposed as a means of separating the [[fission product]] palladium from [[PUREX]] [[raffinate]] which comes from used [[nuclear fuel]].<ref name="chemabstracts" /> In this system of solvent extraction, the [[hydrocarbon]]s of the diesel act as the [[diluent]] while the di[[alkyl]] [[sulfide]]s act as the extractant.<ref name="chemabstracts" /> This extraction operates by a [[solvation]] mechanism.<ref name="chemabstracts" /> So far, neither a [[pilot plant]] nor full scale plant has been constructed to recover palladium, [[rhodium]] or [[ruthenium]] from [[nuclear waste]]s created by the use of [[nuclear fuel]].<ref>Torgov, V.G.; Tatarchuk, V.V.; Druzhinina, I.A.; Korda, T.M. ''et al.'', ''Atomic Energy'', 1994, '''76'''(6), 442–448. (Translated from Atomnaya Energiya; 76: No. 6, 478–485 (June 1994))</ref>

Diesel fuel is often used as the main ingredient in oil-base mud drilling fluid.<ref name="eisbdf">{{cite report|author1=Neff, J.M.|author2=McKelvie, S.|author3=Ayers, RC Jr.|date=August 2000|title=Environmental Impacts of Synthetic Based Drilling Fluids|url=http://www.anp.gov.br/brnd/round6/guias/PERFURACAO/PERFURACAO_R6/biblio/fluido%20sintetico.pdf|publisher=U.S. Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service|pages=1–4|docket=2000-064|access-date=28 July 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728233206/http://www.anp.gov.br/brnd/round6/guias/PERFURACAO/PERFURACAO_R6/biblio/fluido%20sintetico.pdf|archive-date=28 July 2014}}</ref> The advantage of using diesel is its low cost and its ability to drill a wide variety of difficult strata, including shale, salt and gypsum formations.<ref name="eisbdf" /> Diesel-oil mud is typically mixed with up to 40% brine water.<ref name="bfaf">{{cite web|url=http://gekengineering.com/Downloads/Free_Downloads/Brines_fluids_and_filtration.pdf|title=Brines and Other Workover Fluids|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|date=14 March 2009|website=GEKEngineering.com|publisher=George E. King Engineering|access-date=28 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020111636/http://gekengineering.com/Downloads/Free_Downloads/Brines_fluids_and_filtration.pdf|archive-date=2013-10-20|url-status=dead}}</ref> Due to health, safety and environmental concerns, Diesel-oil mud is often replaced with vegetable, mineral, or synthetic food-grade oil-base drilling fluids, although diesel-oil mud is still in widespread use in certain regions.<ref>{{cite web |work=Schlumberger Oil Field Glossary |title=diesel-oil mud |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040122220559/http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/Display.cfm?Term=diesel-oil%20mud |archive-date=22 January 2004 |url=http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/Display.cfm?Term=diesel-oil%20mud}}</ref>

During development of rocket engines in [[Germany]] during [[World War II]] J-2 Diesel fuel was used as the fuel component in several engines including the [[BMW 109-718]].<ref name=CIOSCBMW /> J-2 diesel fuel was also used as a fuel for gas turbine engines.<ref name=CIOSCBMW>{{cite web|last1=Price|first1=P.R, Flight Lieutenant|title=Gas turbine development by BMW|url=http://www.cdvandt.org/CIOS-XXVI-30.pdf|publisher=Combined Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee|access-date=7 June 2014}}</ref>