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Biodiesel Cleans Your Fuel System
• One of the many benefits of using biodiesel is that biodiesel will clean your
fuel system!
• Petroleum diesel fuels are inherently unstable and over time they form
lacquers, varnishes, sediments and deposits throughout a vehicle fuel system
New petro diesel Aged petro dieselsUsed Petro
Diesel Filter
New Petro
Diesel Filter
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Biodiesel Cleans Your Fuel System
• But regular use of biodiesel will remove these potentially harmful materials from your fuel system.
• New biodiesel users can expect to change their fuel filter more often during the first few miles of usage.
– This is normal, as the biodiesel is just cleaning up what the petroleum diesel has left behind
• The following slides illustrate this clean up process.
– This valuable work was performed by and the the photos are courtesy of: Tri-City Energy of Keokuk, Iowa
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Biodiesel Cleans Your Fuel System• Fuel filters from Dodge pickup with ~ 20,000 miles, burning
it’s first B33 w ULSD. (source: Tri-City Energy)
After mile 80 to mile 200 on B33From mile 1 to mile 80 on B33
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Biodiesel Cleans Your Fuel System• Fuel filters from Dodge pickup with ~ 20,000 miles, burning
it’s first B33 w ULSD. (source: Tri-City Energy)
After mile 200 to mile 400 on B33From mile 80 to mile 200 on B33
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Biodiesel Cleans Your Fuel System• Fuel filters from Dodge pickup with ~ 20,000 miles, burning
it’s first B33 w ULSD. (source: Tri-City Energy)
New Fuel FilterFrom mile 200 to mile 400 on B33
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Biodiesel Cleans Your Fuel System• Fuel filters from Dodge pickup with ~ 20,000 miles, burning
it’s first B33 w ULSD. (source: Tri-City Energy)
First 80 Miles Next 120 Miles Next 200 Miles New Filter
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