FROM THE REFINERY TO THE DELIVERY TRUCKS TO YOUR STORAGE TANK, the chances for contamination are ever present

摘要

Most of us know that clean fuel is necessary for the high-pressure common rail fuel injectors (HPCR) used in today's Tier 4 Final engines. Fuel system pressures approaching 40,000 psi require particle filtration as small as one or two microns. The problem is that as fuel system requirements are becoming more stringent, actual diesel fuel quality is going down. Maintaining diesel fuel quality and cleanliness has never been easy. To give you an idea of how long the industry has been dealing with this issue, a Caterpillar Operators Manual published 90 years ago stated "dirt and water causes 90 percent of all the problems with diesel fuel systems."