EN 590 Automotive fuels - Diesel - Requirements and test methods
1 Scope
This European Standard specifies requirements and test methods for marketed and delivered automotive diesel fuel. It is applicable to automotive diesel fuel for use in diesel engine vehicles designed to run on automotive diesel fuel containing up to 7.0 %(V/V) Fatty Acid Methyl Ester.

NOTE For the purposes of this European Standard, the terms "% (m/m)" and "% (V/V)" are used to represent respectively the mass fraction and the volume fraction.

2 Normative references
The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
EN 116:2015, Diesel and domestic heating fuels - Determination of cold filter plugging point - Stepwise cooling bath method
EN 12662:2014, Liquid petroleum products - Determination of total contamination in middle distillates, diesel fuels and fatty acid methyl esters
EN 12916:2016, Petroleum products - Determination of aromatic hydrocarbon types in middle distillates - High performance liquid chromatography method with refractive index detection
EN 14078:2014, Liquid petroleum products - Determination of fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) content in middle distillates - Infrared spectrometry method
EN 14214:2012+A1:2014, Liquid petroleum products - Fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) for use in diesel engines and heating applications - Requirements and test methods
EN 15195:2014, Liquid petroleum products - Determination of ignition delay and derived cetane number (DCN) of middle distillate fuels by combustion in a constant volume chamber
EN 15751:2014, Automotive fuels - Fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) fuel and blends with diesel fuel - Determination of oxidation stability by accelerated oxidation method
EN 16144:2012, Liquid petroleum products - Determination of ignition delay and derived cetane number (DCN) of middle distillate fuels - Fixed range injection period, constant volume combustion chamber method
EN 16329:2013, Diesel and domestic heating fuels - Determination of cold filter plugging point - Linear cooling bath method
EN 16576:2014, Automotive fuels - Determination of manganese and iron content in diesel - Inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP OES) method
EN 16715:2015, Liquid petroleum products - Determination of ignition delay and derived cetane number (DCN) of middle distillate fuels - Ignition delay and combustion delay determination using a constant volume combustion chamber with direct fuel injection
EN 16942:2016, Fuels - Identification of vehicle compatibility - Graphical expression for consumer information
EN 23015:1994, Petroleum products - Determination of cloud point (ISO 3015:1992)
EN ISO 2160:1998, Petroleum products - Corrosiveness to copper - Copper strip test (ISO 2160:1998)
EN ISO 2719:2016 Determination of flash point - Pensky-Martens closed cup method (ISO 2719:2016)
EN ISO 3104:1996, Petroleum products - Transparent and opaque liquids - Determination of kinematic viscosity and calculation of dynamic viscosity (ISO 3104:1994)
EN ISO 3170:2004, Petroleum liquids - Manual sampling (ISO 3170:2004)
EN ISO 3171:1999, Petroleum liquids - Automatic pipeline sampling (ISO 3171:1988)
EN ISO 3405:2011, Petroleum products - Determination of distillation characteristics at atmospheric pressure (ISO 3405:2011)
EN ISO 3675:1998, Crude petroleum and liquid petroleum products - Laboratory determination of density - Hydrometer method (ISO 3675:1998)
EN ISO 3924:2016, Petroleum products - Determination of boiling range distribution - Gas chromatography method (ISO 3924:2016)
EN ISO 4259:2006, Petroleum products - Determination and application of precision data in relation to methods of test (ISO 4259:2006)
EN ISO 4264:2007, Petroleum products - Calculation of cetane index of middle-distillate fuels by the four-variable equation (ISO 4264:2007)
EN ISO 5165:1998, Petroleum products - Determination of the ignition quality of diesel fuels - Cetane engine method (ISO 5165:1998)
EN ISO 6245:2002, Petroleum products - Determination of ash (ISO 6245:2001)
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EN ISO 12156-1, Diesel fuel - Assessment of lubricity using the high-frequency reciprocating rig (HFRR) - Part 1: Test method (ISO 12156-1)
EN ISO 12185:1996, Crude petroleum and petroleum products - Determination of density - Oscillating U-tube method (ISO 12185:1996)
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EN ISO 12937:2000, Petroleum products - Determination of water - Coulometric Karl Fischer titration method (ISO 12937:2000)
EN ISO 13032:2012, Petroleum products - Determination of low concentration of sulfur in automotive fuels - Energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometric method (ISO 13032:2012)
EN ISO 13759:1996, Petroleum products - Determination of alkyl nitrate in diesel fuels - Spectrometric method (ISO 13759:1996)
EN ISO 20846:2011, Petroleum products - Determination of sulfur content of automotive fuels - Ultraviolet fluorescence method (ISO 20846:2011)
EN ISO 20884:2011, Petroleum products - Determination of sulfur content of automotive fuels - Wavelength-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (ISO 20884:2011)