Chapter £º311L Title£ºAIR POLLUTION CONTROL (MOTOR VEHICLE FUEL) REGULATION Gazette Number: L.N. 15 of 2002
Schedule£º1 Heading: SPECIFICATIONS OF MOTOR VEHICLE DIESEL Version Date: 01/04/2002
Any motor vehicle diesel shall-
(a) contain not more than 0.005% by weight of sulphur as determined by ISO 14596; (b) have a cetane number of not lower than 51.0 as determined by ISO 5165; (c) have a viscosity at 40oC of not lower than 2.00 mm2/s and not higher than 4.50 mm2/s as determined by ISO 3104; (d) contain not more than 11% by mass of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as determined by IP 391; (e) have a 95% distillation temperature of not higher than 345oC as determined by ISO 3405; (f) have a distillation percentage recovered at 250oC of not higher than 65% by volume as determined by ISO 3405; and (g) have a density at 15oC of not higher than 0.835 kg/L as determined by ISO 3675.
Note: In this Schedule-
"IP" followed by a numerical symbol ("IP number") means the test procedures of the Institute of Petroleum commonly known by that IP number; "ISO" followed by a numerical symbol ("ISO number") means the test procedures of the International Organization for Standardization commonly known by that ISO number; "viscosity" means the viscosity of diesel as determined by ISO 3104.
(Schedule 1 replaced L.N. 15 of 2002)
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