polish diesel fuel

55 50 Ron · Feb 12, 2019

55 50 Ron

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.

Philip d · Feb 12, 2019

We only have a 250 gal tank ,I have neighbours with 2000 gal tanks and that?s a new concept to me?

JMOR · Feb 12, 2019

Are you saying Polish diesel is cleaner than American diesel? :twisted:

tim s · Feb 12, 2019

We have a 2800 gallon tank that is only about 5 years old,,a lot of fuel gets ran through it,,not enough time for dirt to get settled in...a friend of mine has a tank cleaning business in Columbus Ohio called "Re-fuel" they clean and remove old fuel from big tanks at air ports and trucking companies..never heard it called polishing..could be a different term for cleaning..

TGP · Feb 12, 2019

It can be done to any quantity of Diesel fuel.

It's when your tank becomes contaminated with Alge or Bio separation.

It's a process of treating and multiple filtering to clean up the fuel system.
Tom

john in la · Feb 12, 2019

I worked at a place with over 100,000 gallons of storage and we never polished our fuel. Polishing diesel is removing water treating with biocides and filtering the fuel. If you do not have a algae or sludge problem there is no reason to polish it.

Russ from MN · Feb 12, 2019

I buy my diesel in 6 gallon cans, and I add a little biocide a couple of times a year, I only burn 50-70 gallons a year.

Adirondack case guy · Feb 12, 2019

My Kubota tractor runs much better on shinny fuel than on dull faded fuel. HeHe

Roger Tomfohrde · Feb 12, 2019

I know this question was asked to farmers. We at the hospital burn a low grade fuel for the high pressure boilers but the one section we also use the fuel for the backup generators. That unit does have a fuel polisher on it because when they need the generators to run there is no options for bad fuel. The cold snap that got down to -25 or so we had to curtail Natural Gas and go on fuel oil. Burned around 13000 gallons in approx. week between the two that can be switched over. If the generators had to run they are around 30 gals per hour per unit at 80% load. This is one area we do not cut corners. Just cannot trust the low grade fuels out there.

JimB2 · Feb 12, 2019

I have a couple friends that have sail boats with small Diesel engines to run generators and to power into port with sails down.
They do the "polishing" of their Diesel fuel every spring before they put their sail boats in the water. Basically use a small electric pump to pump the Diesel fuel out of their tanks thru a filter into a drum and then back into their tanks.
I had never heard of this "polishing" Diesel before these sailor friends explained the process.

JimB

4520BW · Feb 12, 2019

We have a 100000 gallon tank at work plus two 25000 and two 10000 and never polish ours. The average use rate is 15 to 20000 a day from the big tank. The small tanks have special fuels that may not get used for several months and never have trouble. The only fuel problem was when the pipeline added to much "slip" agent and it would plug the nano filters.

rusty6 · Feb 12, 2019

(quoted from post at 15:03:51 02/12/19)
55 50 Ron

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.

I've never heard of such an idea. My 1000 gallon tank was new in 1979 and it has never been cleaned or emptied in all those years. I have a filter on the pump so all the fuel going out is filtered. But I believe the filter itself is 20 years old so I'm thinking my fuel is plenty clean enough.

Part Time Pete · Feb 13, 2019

Polishers are usually only installed in marine applications, and where you have a large storage capacity with a low rate of fuel usage. Many of the generators on my projects that have large storage tanks are set up with polishers.
Pete

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