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Boats and Marine
Marine vessels and boats constitute a huge investment and their owners expect the fuels they put in them to provide optimal performance every time with a high level of reliability. The reality is that there are still issues of problems due to the nature of the marine environment.
Boat owners and marine vessel operators are constantly battling the effects of water getting into fuel and performance-robbing deposits that build up in the engine.
The humid marine environment is a perfect setting for water to condense in vented fuel tanks, where it collects and sinks to the bottom of the tank.
In diesel fuel, this water buildup promotes bacterial and fungal growth, oxidation, and fuel breakdown. Once bacteria and other microbes are present they in turn contribute to further diesel problems including quality breakdown, corrosion of tanks, deposit buildup and nasty filter plugging problems.
Ethanol / Petrol blends have their own challenges. This is because ethanol chemically attracts water out of the surrounding air. Water buildup in ethanol fuels promotes phase separation, where the water will pull the ethanol out of the blend and mix with it on the bottom of the tank, leaving a poor combusting, low-octane gasoline layer up top. Sucking this into your engine results in lean fuel mixtures, rough running and poor performance by the boat, and at worst, serious engine damage through burnt valves can result.
Ethanol Blends Affect Rubber And Plastic Fuel System Parts And Tanks
The ethanol in the blend has a corrosive effect, eating away and dissolving these parts over time. A leaky fuel tank or gas line due to ethanol solvency is a serious fire hazard and can emit black exhaust smoke from a boat diesel engine, leaving you stranded on the water. What’s more, the dissolved plastics, rubber parts and resins can lead to serious deposit buildup and filter-plugging.
Speaking of deposits, many boats do a lot of idling and this means a greater chance of deposits building up in engines using either diesel or ethanol. Whether injector or valve or combustion chamber deposits, they all have ill-effects on boat fuel mileage, performance and the black exhaust smoke so commonly seen especially in diesel marine engines.
X-Tend marine fuel treatments correct and solve most common fuel-related problems that marine operators encounter while boosting performance and fuel efficiency.
X-Tend has been providing premium fuel treatments for the marine market for decades. X-Tend petrol conditioner, X-Tend diesel conditioner, and X-Tend Marine Solution address these and other marine fuel-related issues, solving fuel-related problems and saving consumers time and money.