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Anyone who stores or distributes fuel, including your local gas station, has “issues” with controlling and preventing the growth of bacteria and fungi (“microbes”) in their fuel tanks. Think your local place is immune? Think again. Anywhere there is...
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The best solution for fixing problematic stored fuel involves both chemical fuel treatment and “mechanical processing”. The chemical fuel treatment...
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Clogged diesel fuel filters are one of those canary-in-the-coal-mine problems. Filters don't clog by themselves. On a simple level, if the fuel...
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Summarizing what they know thus far... They recovered the ship’s “voyage data recorder” (VDR), sometimes referred to as the black box because of its...
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For fuel professionals, the amount of information out there on the internet can feel like an overload at times. Especially when it comes to things...
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One of the nation’s worst infrastructure disasters now threatens to put a major snarl in our country’s complex web of shipping. On Tuesday, the...
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Contamination of fuel – the presence of something that’s not supposed to be there – accounts for more than half of fuel-related problems. This...
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The finished engine oils you buy aren't just petroleum oil pulled out of the ground and slapped into a bottle. They are an engineered combination of...
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Having the right cetane value in your diesel fuel can be the difference between a good driving experience and a poor one. But even some of the best...
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Diesel engines gained a reputation over the decades of the 20th century for being dirty and making lots of black smoke. That’s one of the dominant...
