Three Ways Fuel Polishing Services Can Save You Money

Fuel polishing refers to removing or filtering out various contaminants present in diesel fuels. The most common contaminants found in diesel fuels include water, sludge, dirt, and microbial particles.

Using contaminated diesel can have hazardous effects on equipment. For instance, dirt and sludge can accumulate in your equipment, causing malfunctions or breakdowns. Thus, invest in fuel polishing services to help you eradicate contaminants from your diesel fuel storage tanks.

Most people consider fuel polishing services an expensive undertaking. However, the fuel polishing services can help you save money in several ways. Here are three ways fuel polishing services save you money.

1. Reduce Wasteful Fuel Replacement Costs

Today, diesel fuels have a much lower sulfur content than several years ago. The presence of sulfur in diesel is essential in preventing the growth of diesel bugs. Diesel bugs are microbial organisms such as bacteria, molds, and yeasts that lower the longevity of diesel fuel.

Due to the adoption of ultra-low sulfur diesel, diesel fuels now have a shorter shelf life. As a result, you can only store diesel fuel for six to twelve months before it goes bad. Once your stored diesel develops diesel bugs and goes bad, you usually dispose of it and schedule a fresh diesel delivery.

You incur losses and extra expenses by disposing of the sour diesel and ordering fresh diesel. Incurring such losses and expenses can raise your operational costs significantly. 

However, you can avoid the losses and expenses by polishing your diesel. Fuel polishing services can remove diesel bugs from your fuel storage tanks and extend the lifespan of your stored diesel. As a result, you don't need to dispose of bad diesel when you can polish it.

Thus, a fuel polishing service saves money by eliminating the need to replace bad diesel with fresh fuel every time diesel bugs develop.

2. Reduce Equipment Maintenance and Repair Costs 

Using contaminated diesel fuel has adverse effects on your engines and heavy equipment. For instance, the presence of dirt in diesel fuel lowers the lubrication of the fuel. As a result, the components in your engines and equipment encounter accelerated wear and tear due to the friction caused by the dirt particles.

Thus, using contaminated diesel fuel can cause engines and other equipment to fail or malfunction. Every time your equipment malfunctions or breaks down, you have to spend money on repairs to fix the issues.

Unless you stop using contaminated diesel fuel, your equipment will always encounter such issues. Thus, you will spend a small fortune on equipment repairs and maintenance services in the long run.

Enlisting for fuel polishing services ensures your engines and equipment run on clean, contaminant-free diesel. Hence, your equipment doesn't encounter any issues resulting from the use of contaminated diesel fuel.

3. Reduce Fuel Tank Cleaning Costs 

Most people with diesel fuel storage tanks assume that regular tank cleaning helps keep their stored diesel clean. Fuel tank cleaning involves:

• Draining out the diesel from the storage tank 
• Cleaning and rinsing the tank
• Refilling the tank with the drained diesel

Draining the tank agitates any contaminants that may have settled at the bottom of the tank. As a result, some of the contaminants drain out with the diesel. Thus, after cleaning the tank, you refill it with the contaminated diesel you had drained out.

Therefore, tank cleaning doesn't fully resolve the contamination problem unless you are refilling the tank with fresh diesel.

Fuel polishing can help you reduce the need to clean your fuel tanks regularly. Most of the dirt and sludge in your fuel storage tanks comes from the stored diesel. Thus, polishing the stored diesel can prevent dirt and sludge from accumulating in your fuel storage tanks. Hence, you wouldn't need to clean your fuel tanks regularly if the diesel stored is already polished.

Fuel polishing can help you save money by minimizing the need to clean your fuel tanks.

At Paul Murray Oil, we provide comprehensive fuel polishing, lubrication, and fuel delivery services. Get in touch with us for more information about our fuel polishing services.