Dangers of Bad Diesel Fuel on Engines
Ordinarily, dirt and water are the most significant contamination elements found in diesel fuels, while diesel fuels are expected to cool and lubricate fuel injection systems, poor lubricity and contaminated diesel fuels will definitely affect your performance and the life spans of your engines and equipment. This could also cause excessive and persistent wear and tear and premature breakdowns of your engine injectors and fuel pumps, just as water contaminated diesel can also bring about haze to your engines, which can hitherto lead to damage of fuel injection systems. Similarly, persistent water contamination can also cause corrosion of fuel systems and cause bacterial growths in your fuel tank, and therefore causes plugged fuel filtrations.
To sum up, bad or contaminated fuel can cause the following dangers to your engines and equipment:
- Excessive consumption of fuel of your engines/equipment
- Create high and terrible emission level of your engines
- Cause undue delay in ignition process of your engines
- Lead to poor warm up and emission of white smokes after starting-up your engines
- Leads to reduction of Injector life of your engine or equipment
- Lubricity reduction
- Leading to breeding ground for Bacterial growth in your fuel tank
- Asphaltene formation
- Lead to filters clogging
- Cause abrasive and frequent wear and tear of your engines and equipment
How Long Until Diesel Fuel Degrade?
Ideally, because diesel fuels are carbon based petrochemical substance, their level of degradation thus begin soon as they depart the refinery. So, we would say that your diesel fuel will degrade in as little as 30 to 32 days if they are without additives. So proffering an answer to the above question for engine and equipment depends on whether or not you use additives for your fuel consumption.
However, with proper storage and use of fuel additives; the type we offer, fuel degradation of your engine could be combated for a longer period of at least 6 months.
We are on a mission to preach the gospel of the dangers of bad diesel fuel to engines. We foster a close relationship with each of our clients. We constantly educate them on the degradation of diesel fuel; how long it takes to degrade and what should be done after degradation.