The Designs Of Diesel Engines Striving To Increaseperformance Have Made A Lot Of Advancements In Enginefuel Delivery To The Combustion Chamber. The Dieselengines Of Today Are Much Quieter, Smoother, Andalso More Powerful. The Quality Of Diesel Fuel On The Other Hand Has Not Advanced At The Same Rate Asthe Improvements Of Engines.As Soon As It Is Produced, Diesel Fuel Begins Todeteriorate. Less Than 30 Days Of Refining, All Diesel Fuel, Regardless Of The Brand, Goes Through Anatural Process Called Oxidation. This Process Formsvarnishes And Gums In The Fuel By Causing The Molecules Of The Fuel To Lengthen And Start Bondingtogether.Now, These Components Will Drop To The Bottom Of Thefuel Tank And Form Diesel Sludge. The Fuel Willbegin To Turn Very Dark In Color, Smell Bad, Andcause The Engine To Smoke. The Engine Starts To Smoke As Some Of These Clusters Are Small Enough Topass Through The Engine Filtration And On To The Combustion Chamber.As The Clusters Begin To Increase In Size, Only Asmall Amount Of The Molecules Will Get Burned, As The Rest Will Go Out The Exhaust As Unburned Fueland Smoke. Its Estimated That Eight Out Of Every Ten Dieselengine Failures Are Directly Related To Poor Qualityand Contaminated Fuel. The Build Up Of Contaminationin The Fuel Systems And Storage Tanks Can Clog Filters, Thereby Causing The Engine To Shut Down,and Damage To The Engine To Occur.The Number One Reason For Bad Fuel Is Due To Theincreasing Popularity Of Diesel Power And The Accompanying Increased Demand For More Diesel Fuel.Long Ago, Diesel Fuel Remained In The Refinery Storage Tanks Long Enough To Naturally Seperate Andbegin To Settle, Allowing The Clean Fuel To Be Drawn Apart. Now, With The Demand Getting Higherthan Ever, The Fuel Is Never Stationary Long Enoughto Settle, And The Suspended Water And Solids Arepassed On To The Person Buying The Fuel - You.The Changes In Refinery Techniques Is Also A Problem. In Order To Get More Products, Diesel Fuel Is Being Refined For More Marginal Portions Ofthe Crude Barrel. This Results In A Lower Gradeproduct That Is Thicker And Also Contains A Lot More Contamination.As Time Continues To Pass And Technology Gets Betterand Better, One Can Only Hope That The Quality Ofdiesel Fuel Improves. As It Stands Now, The Qualityisn't Good At All. If You Run Diesel Fuel, All You Can Basically Hope For Is That The Fuel Youare Getting Isn't Contaminated.(word Count 432)PPPPP
