6 Benefits of Fuel Polishing
Fuel is a significant expense for any industrial operation. Anything that can be done to improve the condition of fuel optimizes industrial operations.
If you are struggling with fuel degrading in storage, remedy the problem with fuel polishing. Here are six important benefits fuel polishing offers for your equipment and your industrial facilities.
1. Use of Consolidated Fuel
Over time, fuel naturally condenses slightly when it's sitting in storage. Condensed solids develop within fuel that are combustible and usable as fuel. While a fuel filter simply removes these usable fuel sources, fuel polishing repurposes these solids by extracting them and processing them back into liquid form.
Because fuel polishing can reprocess consolidated fuel rather than getting rid of it, fuel polishing presents a more efficient and less wasteful means of keeping contamination out of fuel.
2. Ensures Continued Power Supply
Contaminated fuel doesn't reliably power equipment. When fuel is contaminated, equipment shutdown can occur at any time. Shutdowns are major problems for industrial operations. Not only do they reduce productivity, but they can also create severe safety hazards and premature wear of equipment.
Fuel polishing ensures that fuel is not contaminated and will provide a reliable supply of power to industrial equipment without the risk of any costly and dangerous holdups.
3. Ability to Use Bad Fuel
Fuel that is contaminated must be disposed of if it cannot be purified in some way, but throwing out contaminated fuel wastes a significant amount of money for companies.
Yet the drawbacks of having to throw out contaminated fuel are more than just financial. Disposing of contaminated fuel has environmental costs as well. When fuel cannot be used, it must be disposed of as hazardous waste.
Fuel is harmful to the environment if it leeches into the ground, so disposal is costly and can be problematic if a business can't afford it.
With fuel polishing, fuel can be reused and doesn't cause disposal problems.
4. Keeps Filters Clean
Fuel polishing is best when used in combination with fuel filtering mechanisms already built into mechanical equipment. Fuel that has gone through the fuel polishing process is cleaner and therefore won't soil filters as quickly as fuel that has not gone through polishing.
Fuel polishing gets rid of the solid contaminants that wear out fuel filters. Fuel polishing makes fuel filters more effective and maximizes their lifespan.
Changing filters can be a time consuming maintenance task. With fuel filtering, filters don't need to be changed as often and maintenance needs are therefore reduced. Also, malfunctions resulting from issues like filter clogs are less likely to occur.
5. Cost Savings
Fuel polishing reduces costs for industrial operations in numerous ways. The process improves fuel quality so that mechanical equipment runs more reliably, preventing malfunctions and the resulting production bottlenecks.
Fuel polishing also reduces costs by reducing maintenance needs for mechanical equipment. Fuel can be reconditioned with fuel polishing so that fuel that otherwise would have been thrown away can be used. This results in cost savings both in terms of saved fuel and no fuel disposal costs.
6. Removal of Liquid Contaminants
Although traditional fuel filtering removes solid particles such as rust, dirt, and some microbial growth from fuel, filters aren't always able to remove liquid contamination.
Liquid contaminants in fuel, such as water, are some of the most problematic contents. Fortunately, the fuel polishing process removes liquid contaminants through the use of separater and coalescer equipment. This equipment can remove all three types of water contamination: dissolved, emulsified, and free water.
In addition to removing water, separater and coalescer equipment can also remove tank sludge and other semi-solid contaminants.
Contact us at Paul Murray Oil, Inc., to learn more about what our fuel polishing services can do for your industrial operation.