For thirty years Fuel Doctors has specialized in cleaning fuel tanks of all sizes and dimensions.
Due to the design and location of boat fuel tanks and the fact that 90% plus are baffled and inaccessible means cleaning them has always been an expensive and challenging exercise.
Thanks to the war in Ukraine, it has now got twice as expensive.
The fungal material that grows at the fuel water interface within fuel tanks is a slimy sticky substance that migrates throughout the tank due to agitation and emulsification when re-filling, plus the slosh when steaming in heavy weather.
Draining and refilling tanks will not eradicate the ever growing and multiplying Cladosporium Resinae (fuel bug), as you drain or pump the tank bottom contaminants, water at one kilo per liter is the heaviest followed by diesel or petrol at 840 and 740 grams, the bug weighs in at one kilo per cubic meter and sticks to the walls and baffles where it will reinfest the incoming fresh fuel resulting in ongoing filter plugging issues.
Understanding the cancerous substance Cladosporium Resinae and its physiology resulted in the development of Fuel Doctor Fuel-Conditioner that we manufacture and use in all our tank cleaning and maintenance operations since 1992.
Fuel Doctor is detergent based so whatever surface it meets it will clean, it has two dispersants for moisture and fungal material breaking them into a micro emulsion that are suspended in the fuel, the final component is a proprietary lubricity improver ensuring the suspended contaminants do not damage pumps and injectors and in fact extending their life with on-going use.
Thousands of Aussie boat owners use Fuel Doctor for preventative maintenance however where a contaminated fuel system has been neglected and suffers constant filter plugging you have no choice but to clean the tank.
Fuel Doctors system for cleaning fuel tanks is to remove the tank bottom contaminants and fuel, we then introduce Fuel Doctor at a ratio commensurate to the degree of contamination extracted, then fill the tank with fresh sacrificial fuel at one third to fifty percent, again dependent on volume and degree of contaminants removed prior to agitating the fuel with high pressure pumps, the clean sparkling fuel and Fuel Doctor now present as river water, brown and murky, we repeat this process on average two to three times until a sample presents as clear and bright.
With multiple tanks or even one large tank you can see how this process has now gone through the roof cost wise, today in Brisbane 11-11-2022 the average price of petrol is $2.25 a liter with diesel at $2.35. to dispose of a liter of contaminated petrol is $1.50 and diesel $0.45. consequently, there is a great deal of expense in purchase and disposal costs associated with boat tank cleaning.
The motto here is don’t let your tank contaminants build up to the point that the tank needs cleaning, these contaminants are like Cancer of the fuel system, after thirty years we know that Fuel Doctor is the best chemotherapy for your Cancer, however, no one kills Cancer with one dose of chemo, Fuel Doctor is no different.
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Published in print January-March 2023
