HVO Diesel approved for use

[zouch]

to be clear, you only have to change filters more often running BioDiesel until your fuel system is cleaned out.

and its lubricity is better than most additives.

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[Hard Rock Jeep]

to be clear, you only have to change filters more often running BioDiesel until your fuel system is cleaned out.

and its lubricity is better than most additives.

Agreed

 

[Buddy Lee]

Just my experience, 26 years in the fire service. I’m in California so you can already assume it’s been tried. The city I worked for had a large fleet, over 1
Million residents. They had a green agenda and required the government vehicles to run B20 which is a 20%blend. After 18 months it was determined that the maintenance cost and down time of our apparatus fleet skyrocketed. The city ultimately had every fueling station at the fire houses pumped out and cleaned. The maintenance tech doing the work at my fire house showed me a vial of diesel he pumped out and it was full of vegetable oil sludge that had accumulated in the tanks. We have since switched to a synthetic diesel fuel. I have a Dodge 2500 Cummins and would never use biodiesel. It does work as a fuel but is not worth the potential risk and cost in my opinion.

 

[zouch]

common story.
saw similar happen here, when local agencies just started putting BioD into tanks that had years of buildup already. the BioD flushed it out, and then got the blame.
"sludge" wasn't typically from the BioD unless someone was putting substandard fuel in the tank to start with.

not surprisingly, here in Berkeley, there was a large number of BioD users both making their own and using commercially produced BioD.
i personally put over 100K miles on using B99 & B100 (99-100% BioDiesel) without any problems attributable to the fuel.

Just my experience, 26 years in the fire service. I’m in California so you can already assume it’s been tried. The city I worked for had a large fleet, over 1
Million residents. They had a green agenda and required the government vehicles to run B20 which is a 20%blend. After 18 months it was determined that the maintenance cost and down time of our apparatus fleet skyrocketed. The city ultimately had every fueling station at the fire houses pumped out and cleaned. The maintenance tech doing the work at my fire house showed me a vial of diesel he pumped out and it was full of vegetable oil sludge that had accumulated in the tanks. We have since switched to a synthetic diesel fuel. I have a Dodge 2500 Cummins and would never use biodiesel. It does work as a fuel but is not worth the potential risk and cost in my opinion.

 

[Hard Rock Jeep]

Biodiesel can be made in your backyard or sophisticated industrial plants. Biodiesel used by commercial interests must meet very specific quality standards, similar to petroleum. If someone found vegetable oil sludge they were buying from the wrong source and not verifying specifications. This no doubt may have occurred in the early days but today in is hard to believe that blenders do not closely verify specifications.

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