Current and Future Light Duty Diesel Engines and Their Fuels

Direct-Acting Mutagenicity of Diesel Participate Extract Is Unchanged by Addition of Neat Aromatic Compounds to Diesel Fuel

“…1 Increasing the aromatic content of diesel fuel, however, adversely affects the cetane number. 3 In addition, the amount of benzo(a)pyrene [B(a)P], a known mutagen requiring S9 liver homogenate for activation, present in diesel exhaust emissions has been reported to be directly related to the aromaticity of the fuel.…”