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Do any of you that are bonafide farmers "polish" (clean) your diesel fuel? I hadn't heard of that and was fascinated to learn it is needed in LARGE quantity tanks.
 
(quoted from post at 18:05:46 02/12/19) Sorry I posted this in the wrong forum.
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Maybe wrong forum but I would love to hear more so please tell me where you are posting this question I can follow it.
 
(quoted from post at 12:30:06 02/13/19) Totally unnecessary if you are buying premium diesel
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Well Tom, that is some very poor advice. But what else would we expect? Under varying conditions of storage ANY fuel can develop problems.
 
I owned a fuel business for 14 years and spent hundreds of hours taking part in lab testing. I do know what I am talking about. From the answer I see on this forum, there are hundreds of guys that have no idea about the differences in fuels, let alone the proper way to store them. But what could we expect.
 
Well now that we are through measuring them can either of you tell us poor uneducated people what polishing fuel is and how to accomplish it just in case we might want to. :oops:

I know I have never heard the term used but I also know that I am not a fuel expert. I like a lot of guys just buy fuel and put it in my tank ,use it as needed and re-pete.
 
(quoted from post at 23:30:05 02/13/19) I owned a fuel business for 14 years and spent hundreds of hours taking part in lab testing. I do know what I am talking about. From the answer I see on this forum, there are hundreds of guys that have no idea about the differences in fuels, let alone the proper way to store them. But what could we expect.
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Well Tom that implies that you made regular checks on your customers' storage in order to see that they would never have a problem with the fuel that you supplied. Or is it possible that once or twice some premium fuel that you sold got stored incorrectly and should have been polished?
 

I do not have a big farm fuel consumption or storage, however I have spent more than 6 months a year living on a ships for the past 17 years which stores very large amounts of fuel.

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/54/540311.htm


We have fuel purifiers (separators) Alpha Laval that spin spin very fast with plates (discs) in the middle. The water and contananents are spun out and the fuel goes to another tank or returns to the tank it was taken from.

We drain water off the bottom of the settling and day tanks Weekly because of the large amount of condensation that is created from the heating and cooling of metal tanks.

For smaller application their are portable units. I don’t know the quality of the links below I just did a quick search and these came up.

https://ipatools.com/products/9046f-fuel-tank-sweeper-polishing-and-filtration-system-mobile.html

http://www.separatorsystems.com/diesel-fuel-purifier.html
 
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I do not have a big farm fuel consumption or storage, however I have spent more than 6 months a year living on a ships for the past 17 years which stores very large amounts of fuel.

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/54/540311.htm


We have fuel purifiers (separators) Alpha Laval that spin spin very fast with plates (discs) in the middle. The water and contananents are spun out and the fuel goes to another tank or returns to the tank it was taken from.

We drain water off the bottom of the settling and day tanks Weekly because of the large amount of condensation that is created from the heating and cooling of metal tanks.

For smaller application their are portable units. I don’t know the quality of the links below I just did a quick search and these came up.

https://ipatools.com/products/9046f-fuel-tank-sweeper-polishing-and-filtration-system-mobile.html

http://www.separatorsystems.com/diesel-fuel-purifier.html
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Wels, you need to let the companies that are buying the fuel for those ships that they need to buy premium diesel from a company like hd6gtom used to own so that they would not get condensation in it and need to sweep polish and filter it.
 
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