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In my world I think it really has to do with location...I'm in central Pa...weather doesn't swing crazy hot for long so condensation inside my tanks isn't much of an issue...plus I keep them full...all 3 are not in direct sunlight and have some form of cover from sunlight...I have them set up to draw from the bottom with filters mounted to each tank which means any water that might get in there gets filtered and burned out in my furnace...I burn close to 500 gallons a year so I use about half my stock a year...there's tons of info about what people do in southern areas where temps and humidity is high most of the year.Hey,
Just wondering how long you store your diesel fuel with or without additives? Is it really only 6-12 months?
Thanks
Thanks for the tech data!I store my diesel in MFC's, with Biobor and PRI-D added. I usually rotate the fuel at 5 year intervals, although I tested one by keeping it 9 years, with no problems. Water, heat, oxygen, and certain metals are the enemy of diesel (and other fuel as well). Open tanks that can breath are the worst containers to store fuel, unless you add a breather / descicator like mentioned in a previous post. I always run the fuel through a water separator funnel when pouring it from the can, or through a water separator / filter using a small airtex fuel pump. Since all fuel inherently contains some minute traces of water, crud will settle, and bacteria will grow in the bottom of the tank, unless treated. This can be as simple as settled water, to sludge, like raw eggs. ( I once filled the tank of my hmmwv at a discount station, out in the boonies in Wyoming, and then, out in the middle of nowhere, it started running rough, and almost died. After checking the filter, I wound up cleaning out about a coffe can of sludge that looked like brown slime. So even commercial tanks have problems). When I used to work with large standby generators, we would "polish" the fuel once a year, by running it through a "polishing unit", which is a fancy name of a fuel filtering and cleanup unit. You can build your own, with an electric fuel pump, and a filter / separator from ebay or amazon. See the attached writeup from BP - old but still valid.
i use the golden rod filter/ separator from my aux tank. The fuel in the 30 gal aux tank was about a year and a half old. Treated with a biocide. I live in Massachusetts. I run the generator every other month and top off the onboard tank from the aux tank. 2 weeks ago we lost power for 3 days after a storm and it was my first extended run with the generator. No issues with the aux fuel filter/ pump. Fuel ran fine and I was able to top off the auxtank with fresh fuel and more additives. The golden rod filter looks clean with no sludge in the bowl/ filter.Has anyone used something like a goldenrod diesel water/particle filter for auxiliary tanks on their auxiliary tank? It seems like it wouldn’t hurt the auxiliary fuel pump by creating to much restriction?
If this was used I wonder how long the diesel would go for?
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