Tag Archive: diesel

Some Answers to Treating Diesel Fuel

We receive a lot of questions regarding diesel fuel and bacteria and quality. Currently, for contamination, Midwest Laboratories offers a Fuel Fingerprint analysis, $90.00  which looks at 22 different diesel contaminants and compares the diesel sample to a matrix of different contaminants to look for the presence of these contaminants in the diesel sample. In…

Happy Birthday | Rudolph Diesel

Today, March 18, 2010 is the birthday of Rudolph Diesel. He designed the first diesel engine to run on peanut  oil.  Today, thanks to his discovery, we have all types of diesel engines for automobiles and trains. It is kind of ironic that Rudolph Diesel was really interested in designing a car that would run…