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| Dieselcure - Microbial Infestation |
Despite carefully conceived and executed maintenance programs, stored diesel fuel may still become heavily contaminated with microbial growth. Once microbial contamination has been identified, the traditional procedure is to treat the fuel an water bottoms with biocides. The effectiveness of biocide treatment is at best questionable because these microbes are known to develop resistance or immunity to the biocides and continue to flourish, despite the presence of biocides. Another shortcoming of biocide treatment is that after treatment, a residue of dead bacteria and fungi remains behind in the fuel and in fuel storage tanks, where the residue continues to block fuel filters, further compounding filtration problems, until physically removed. |
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| If a heavy biofilm has accumulated on the surface of the tank or other equipment, a biocide may not work, as it cannot reach the organisms living deep within the film. Since biocides are consumed as they kill microbes, survivors will flourish as soon as biocide concentrations decrease to sub-toxic levels. After a biocide treatment, the particulate count will increase dramatically clogging filters and injectors. Tanks must be drained immediately and manually cleaned. |
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| In use, when added to diesel fuel, DIESELCURE makes the water in the diesel fuel, fuel soluble, fully combustible, non-corrosive, with lubricating properties, and inert with oxides of sulphur and nitrogen, thus ameliorating the problems described already. Where microbes exist in fuel tanks, the fuel additive composition eradicates their habitat (water) and food-source (resin), thus killing the organisms, dissolving the dead remains and solving the problem of microbial infestation entirely. |
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