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Re: Long Term Fuel Storage?
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Posted by dej(JED) on February 07, 2005 at 11:17:11 from (66.212.143.210):
In Reply to: Re: Long Term Fuel Storage? posted by Majorman on February 07, 2005 at 09:16:13:
Fuels have a limited shelf life. Additives can make them last a little longer, but out beyond a year and a half , you could begin to have some problems. Fuels are made to be used relatively quickly. Heck even the US Govt, whom we have done testing work for, has learned that it is far better to store crude and make the fuel from that when you need it. Many of the diesel reserves were a mess, full of gums and bacterial growths. Check us out at Parctech.com on the Net, we have several pilot plants where we duplicate refinery processes along with automotive facilities and our testing lab. We are an independent testing lab, so we only have an oblegation to our owners and that is to make them money.
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