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Erik Bjornstad: Mar 31 2026
If you manage stored fuel for backup power systems, there’s a good chance NFPA 110 applies to you—whether you realize it or not. Even if you don’t overtly reference it in your procedures, it’s a virtual certainty that NFPA 110 is shaping how your...
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Erik Bjornstad: Mar 24 2026
The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season is still several months away, but the earliest forecasts are already beginning to appear. For businesses and...
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Erik Bjornstad: Mar 23 2026
These days, it seems like everyone is being asked to do more with less.
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Erik Bjornstad: Mar 19 2026
For hospitals maintaining emergency generators, utilities protecting grid stability, data centers ensuring uptime, and fleets managing fuel...
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Erik Bjornstad: Mar 10 2026
Over the years, when we’ve written about diesel fuel maintenance, the focus has often been on microbial contamination control and fuel stability....
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Erik Bjornstad: Mar 3 2026
When we think of diesel fuel contamination, we’re talking about things that aren’t supposed to be there. These contaminants generally fall into a few...
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Erik Bjornstad: Feb 24 2026
Even by those fully on board with its importance, fuel sampling is often treated as just a routine task—pull a bottle, ship it to the lab, check the...
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Erik Bjornstad: Feb 18 2026
Two regulatory frameworks. Different origins. Different enforcement mechanisms. But for facility managers responsible for diesel storage tanks at...
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Erik Bjornstad: Feb 12 2026
Most fuel tests tell you what already happened. Your fuel passed or failed on the day you sampled it. The distillation curve was in spec last...
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Erik Bjornstad: Feb 3 2026
The use of oxygenates in gasoline has been a contentious issue for decades. One oxygenate commonly used in the United States gasoline was methyl...
