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Carbon buildup in diesel engines is a prime cause of the black smoke that diesel engines have a reputation for generating. Excessive idling by diesel engines is also a main cause of carbon buildup on pistons, rings, injectors, and valves.
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The idea of preventive maintenance is, that you do a little work on the front end to save a lot more work and expense on the back end. We're all...
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Imagine a scenario where a hospital faces a power outage but finds its backup generators faltering due to poor fuel quality. Such a situation...
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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...
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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...
