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Fuel studies have shown that diesel fuel starts to deteriorate and form solids within 60-90 days after refining. As this change occurs, naturally accumulating particulates increase in size & mass. You will notice heavy deposits in filtration equipment and sludge forming in tanks & other fuel system components. This sludge or “algae” is the most common cause of clogged filters, loss in engine rpm, excessive exhaust smoke, damaged fuel injectors and lift pumps. Algae-X Fuel Conditioning reverses this degradation process and restores & stabilizes the overall quality of diesel fuels. Our philosophy of Total Fuel System Management begins with selecting the ideal solution to address your specific fuel related issues and includes the following product groups: LG-X Series In-line fuel conditioners - These patented fuel conditioners work in conjunction with filters and separators to ensure that your fuel is free of particulates, sediments and water. LG-X are maintenance free units that reverse the degradation process while the engines are running. Delivering optimal quality fuel with improved filtration & combustion via the engine's fuel return line; cleaning the entire fuel circulation system.
AFC-705 Fuel Catalyst is used to dissolve and eliminate any sludge that has accumulated in tanks and preserves fuel quality for up to 12 months. AFC-705 cleans your tanks, enhances combustion, eliminates carbon deposits, reduces harmful emissions, and lowers fuel consumption. AFC 705 / 805 Fuel Catalyst - "Tank Cleaner in a Bottle" MTC, FPS, TK and STS Tank Cleaning Systems remove water, sludge and sediments from fuel tanks keeping diesel fuel in a pristine state ; water free, stable and clean. These systems range from compact portable models to high capacity industrial systems for stored fuels. Adding Algae-X Fuel Conditioning to any diesel application improves performance & reliability while reducing overall operating costs. In short, less downtime & loss of productivity while enhancing engine performance, reliability, fuel economy and reducing harmful emissions. Please call us if you have any questions or need ordering information. OPTIMUM DIESEL FUEL QUALITY Fuel is the life-blood of the engine and at the same time it's the single largest factor determining operating cost. A broader understanding of fuel and fuel properties will prove helpful in discussing how fuel conditioning technology may positively affect fuel quality, fuel economy, emissions, engine life, downtime, maintenance and overall operating budget. We can safely assume that engine manufacturers build the best possible quality engines, use the latest technology and strive to build excellent products. However, engine manufacturers have no control over the stability and quality of the fuel going into their engines, or the negative impact engines have on the fuel they use. (Re-polymerization, asphaltene agglomeration etc) It is also safe to assume that our fuel supplier always tries to sell us the best possible quality fuel. However, he does not make the fuel and has no control over the storage and delivery systems of his suppliers. Fuel that meets ASTM specifications at the supplier level does not automatically prevent fuel related problems, such as poor engine performance, injector problems, loss of RPM, excessive exhaust, smoke, filter clogging and tank sludge at the end user level. Each and every end user fuel tank is an independent eco-system, containing a perishable inherently unstable organic fluid, “The Fuel”. Optimal Fuel Quality is essential to Peak Engine Performance. Poor Fuel Quality not only can, but will, lower operating efficiency. Poor fuel quality will increase maintenance, fuel consumption and emissions. Ultimately it will ruin engines, turbines and shut down your emergency power systems. The inherent instability of fuel is a given, a fact of life. Just like any other organic fluid, fuel quality will rapidly deteriorate. Fuel quality and chemistry are affected by transportation, storage and the result of factors such as oxidation, water, microbial contamination, incompatible additive packages, etc. Repeated exposure to the heat and pressure of engine injection systems significantly accelerates the breakdown of fuel quality. Changes in refining technology have had a negative impact on fuel stability. Catalytic cracking has virtually replaced distillation in the refining of crude oil to meet the dramatic growth in demand of middle distillates such as diesel fuel, jet fuel and kerosene. Our “new diesel fuel” wants to change back to its original heavy fuel oil state, which is part of the cause of fuel instability and the formation of solids, tank sludge and re-polymerization. The stress, heat and pressure of engine injection systems on fuel accelerates the formation of solids, gum, varnish, sludge, slime, etc. It is this material of basically microscopic particles growing larger and larger, that forms in excess of 90% of all the waste products plugging filter elements, ruining injectors, causing poor fuel economy, carbon build up and smoking engines. Fuel quality is obviously extremely important to the reliability, safety and performance of our equipment, as well as our bottom-line. A visual inspection does not tell us what we need to know about the quality, and combustibility of our fuel. However, there will be an immediate pay back buy implementing technologies that enhance fuel quality. In large fuel consumption applications such as the marine industry, power generation, mining, heavy equipment, etc. fuel deterioration and the accumulation of tank sludge has proven extremely costly. It is a well-known fact of life that the more fuel we use, the more tank sludge builds up. We never use all the fuel in our tanks and always fill up before the tank is completely empty. In essence we continuously add particulate, water and organic debris to the accumulating contaminants in the bottom of the tank every time we fill up. Periodic tank cleaning and corrosion repair are accepted as normal and inevitable maintenance. Significant amounts of sludge, water and emulsion accumulate in tanks used for long term / high volume fuel storage, through put and consumption. Even in applications such as in the truck industry, with smaller tanks and high fuel turn over, replacing fuel filters every 10–15,000 km is accepted as normal, while filter elements in that industry should easily last 80 000 km and more. Tank sludge and “short” filter life are tell-tale signs of the deterioration processes that form solids (organic debris) in fuel. These symptoms should be seen as warning signals indicating much higher than normal fuel consumption, loss of system reliability and a significant increase in overall operating costs. ALGAE-X Fuel Conditioning Technology provides solutions that lead to optimal fuel quality and engine efficiency, lower operating cost, extended equipment life and compliance with environmental emissions regulations. ALGAE-X improves fuel economy, eliminates sludge disposal, tank cleaning and visible exhaust, while significantly lowering operating costs. ALGAE-X Technology continuously enhances your bottom line. A diesel engine fuel system is a “closed loop” cycle system. The engine continuously takes fuel from the tank and filters that fuel before it goes to the injectors. The surplus fuel, not used for combustion, returns back to the tank through the return line. One would expect that this continuous filtration process would keep each and every diesel fuel tank absolutely spotless. However, we all know better. The larger the tank, the more sludge, contamination and fuel degradation we experience. The Algae-X Fuel Conditioner is installed in the fuel line between the tank and the filter. It continuously treats and conditions the fuel directly before combustion and before it returns to the tank. It optimizes fuel quality, and cleans the entire fuel system by simply running your engines. Induction is the operating principle of the ALGAE-X Fuel Conditioners. The results are improved stability, filterability and combustibility of the fuel. This same technology can also be applied to eliminate degradation and preserve the integrity of jet fuel, light oils and hydraulic fluid. ALGAE-X boasts a proven eleven year track record in the USA and Europe and after six years here is rapidly establishing itself in all sectors of the diesel engine environment here is Southern Africa. Taking into account our fuel quality, the unit is an essential item on all diesel engines. Magnetic Fluid Conditioners -- Theory of Operation The operation of a Magnetic Fluid Conditioner appears to some as magic, to others as hocus-pocus! The following are two explanations of how magnetic induction changes the characteristics of Diesel Fuel making it a more efficient fuel and cleansing it from microbial contamination which causes fuel deterioration and debris which clogs filters and compromises performance. In 1989 the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Hans Dehmelt of the University of Washington in Seattle for his work on the fundamental properties of electrons. The Nobel Prize was a result of 40 years of research into the basic properties of electrons. The electron has only four known characteristics: mass, charge, spin and magnetism. And over the preceding years, mass and charge had already been measured to high levels of accuracy, but the electron's spin and magnetism were another story. To speak of the "spin" of something that is defined as a fuzzy bit of electron charge without definite size or shape may seem a bit odd, since there is nothing in the ordinary sense of the word to spin. Physicists use the term because of an electron's ability to store up energy within itself as similar to the way a flywheel stores up energy. The spinning analogy leads us to the electron's magnetism. For example, if an un-magnetized iron rod is placed into rotation about its cylindrical axis, (turned like an axle rather than lengthwise as a fan), the rod will become magnetized. This is known as the Barnett effect. Also, an electron by virtue of its mass, charge and spin is also a magnet. If electrons are provided with the precise amount of magnetic energy the spinning electron will absorb that energy and flip into alignment. The exact amount of energy required to produce a "spin-flip" is determined by the g-factor, known as the gyro-magnetic ratio discovered by Paul Dirac in 1928. Dirac noticed in his experiment whole atoms absorbing and releasing energy as the electrons undergo spin flips. We should bear in mind that all materials experience magnetic effects. It is merely a question of degree of influence. All the known elements in the periodic chart fall into two categories - paramagnetic or diamagnetic. With paramagnetic materials, the flux draws the materials into the areas of stronger flux. Ferromagnetics are a special sub class of paramagnetics, since its (iron/magnet) attraction is extraordinarily strong. What we see on a daily basis is ferromagnetic interaction. Just because we don't see strong attractive forces with other materials doesn't mean that there is no effect. In many cases the term non-magnetic actually means non-ferromagnetic. Diamagnetic materials, on the other hand, are materials that are driven into the weaker areas of magnetic flux. Most materials possess paired electrons. However, some materials (for example iron) have unpaired electrons. It is the action of spin of the unpaired electrons that gives rise to the effect we call magnetism with its resultant magnetic moments and related fields. Hydrogen, for example, in its para or other spin form, can either be paramagnetic or diamagnetic depending on the spin orientation. Ortho-hydrogen with its coincident spins is far more unstable than its para counter part where the electron/nuclear spins are in opposition. Hydrogen in its para form can be converted to its ortho form by the application of an appropriate magnetic field (Ruskin patent #3228 868).This process makes the hydrogen more volatile. As previously mentioned the concept of electron spin is similar to our concept of spin in the everyday non-quantum world. In physics there is a fundamental law that states momentum cannot simply appear and disappear, since angular momentum is always conserved in any physical process. When magnetic force is applied, the atomic moments of the molecules tend to align with the direction of the field. As the axis of the electrons become aligned with the external magnetic field the angular momentum no longer averages out to zero. Consequently, the reactivity of the atom and related molecules is enhanced. In octane (C8H18) the carbon content of the molecule in terms of mass is 84.2% while the hydrogen content is 15.8%. When it is combusted the carbon portion of the molecule will generate 12,244 BTU (per pound of carbon). On the other hand, the hydrogen which comprises only 15.8% of the molecular weight will generate an amazing 9,801 BTU of heat per pound of hydrogen. Thus we can see the importance of hydrogen in generating heat when a hydrocarbon molecule is burned. By altering the spin properties of the electrons, we can enhance the reactivity of the fuel and related combustion process. In conclusion, due to the breakthrough in magnetic technology and the development of a new generation of permanent magnets with high enough flux density, it is now possible to build Magnetic Fuel Conditioners (MFCs) that substantially change the hydrocarbon molecule from its para state to the higher energized ortho state. This higher spin state shows a high potential or reactivity which attracts additional oxygen. Since combustion engineering teaches that additional oxygenation increases combustion efficiency resulting in fuel economy (i.e. turbo chargers, chemical oxidizing agents put into gasoline, etc.). MFCs provide a sufficient magnetic energy product and residence time which increases the fuel's ability to further oxidize. The results are more complete combustion, cleaner exhaust emissions and improved fuel economy. |
