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Good Fuel Maintenance Starts With Fuel Sampling
Imagine a scenario where a hospital faces a power outage but finds its backup generators faltering due to poor fuel quality. Such a situation...
Fuel Storage
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Microbial Infestation of Fuel Tanks? Use a Fuel Cleaner for Bacteria
Anyone who stores or distributes fuel, including your local gas station, has “issues” with controlling and preventing the growth of bacteria and...
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Filtering out the bad stuff in stored fuel
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
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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The Key Bridge Disaster - Trying to Assess the Aftermath
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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Keys To Biodiesel Storage Life
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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Fuel contamination symptoms: a quick primer
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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7 Signs of Diesel Fuel Contamination by Microbes, Fungus, and Bacteria
Maintaining today's stored backup fuels is a bigger job than it used to be. With the way fuels have changed, you're much more likely to encounter...
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Recognizing Diesel Fuel Algae
The last decade, since 2014 when the complete transition of all off-road diesel fuel to ULSD was completed, has seen a dramatic rise across the...
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How Long Does Diesel Last In A Tank?
Hospitals, utilities, diesel fleets, emergency management, telecom/data centers, facilities with backup generators - all places that rely on critical...