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When To Treat For Cold Flow: Navigating Diesel's Seasonal Challenges
As winter beckons, a prudent eye turns towards the fuel tanks and the specter of cold flow problems that lurk in the colder months. Understanding...
Fuel and Tank Services
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Where To Sample Your Stored Fuel
Fuel storage and maintenance is a topic of great significance, especially for industries relying heavily on fuel-based operations. A recent episode...
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Keeping Your Stored Fuel's Quality Where It Should Be
Protecting Quality and Performance In Stored Fuels Stored fuels are mostly diesel and/or biodiesel blends stored in large and small tanks for use in...
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Why Fuel Condition Monitoring? Because Fuels Have Changed
We’ve Never Had To Do Fuel Testing Before, So Why Now? Because fuels have changed and are not what they used to be. That's the simple answer. You...
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Fuel Testing & Understanding Your Fuel's Properties
If you're going to best take care of your stored fuel, you need the confidence of knowing how your fuel should be tested and what the results mean....
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Taking Care of Your Fuel: Understanding the Role of ASTM
How ASTM Is Critical To Best Practice Fuel Care Sometimes, to better understand the scope and value of the kind of fuel testing necessary for best...
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Fixing Problems With Water In Fuel Tanks
Water is the enemy of stored fuel, the tanks it’s stored in, and the equipment that uses it. Fuel storage rules that used to allow for “allowable”...
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What To Do When You Suspect You Have Degraded Fuel
You are concerned your fuel has degraded and doesn't meet its essential standards. You need to know what to do next. This is where talking with an...
1 min read
Fuel System Preventive Maintenance - What Essential Tools?
The idea of preventive maintenance is to do a little work on the front end to save a lot of work and expense on the back end. You exercise and eat...
4 min read
Important Reasons Not to Ignore Sludge and Biomass in Farm Fuel Storage Tanks
Whether you're talking about a farm fuel tank or any other kind (even home heating oil), it’s safe to say that any time you find “sludge” or biomass,...