Has anyone every heard of a fuel Algae?

serozhah · Dec 1, 2015

Skan said: ↑

This is starting to become more common. I'm seeing it crop up more often on the reefer side and our service advisor told me this. The fuel gets to maybe a 1/4 tank, and using the same high speed pumps at places like the Flying J or Loves hits the sump and stirs the algae up. While a big pain in the fuel filters of a big diesel, the primary screen on a Thermo King reefer plugs up and shuts it down. I asked why is algae even forming in the first place? He pretty much agreed with me that the ultra low sulfur fuels being used now is the culprit. Sulfur in the old days was used in medicine as an anti-bacterial agent (amongst hundreds of other uses over the centuries) and I believe that removing that has allowed the algae to begin growing in the fuel. Maybe I'm wrong but I don't recall this type of issue before the new fuels were common.
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I fueled in flying J in Dallas TX recently and all hell broke lose like the symptoms of the algae and black fuel filters. If i confirm that i got the algae problem, i'll hate flying j for a while I even remember standing at that pump looking at the stickers saying "biodiesel 15+%" (or something) and thinking to myself, all this biodiesel cant be good for my truck(

serozhah · Dec 2, 2015

ironpony said: ↑

You're going to have to clean all that crap out, and use the algaecide product to kill the stuff. Probably going to be changing filters frequently for awhile...
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I've read that the biocide fuel additives actually dissolve this crap. so maybe no need to physically clean anything?

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