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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!ukma!lexmark!mollett
- From: mollett@lexmark.com (Vic Mollett)
- Subject: Diesel "algae"
- Message-ID: <1992Sep02.125131.168327@lexmark.com>
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- Organization: Lexmark International; Lexington KY
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- Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 12:51:31 GMT
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- I was recently told that algae of some sort can grow in fuel tank of a diesel
- car or truck. This seems most strange to me since there is virtually no light
- that reaches the tank and I would think that diesel would kill just about any-
- thing. My diesel automobile has a translucent fuel filter/strainer that gets
- black very quickly after changing and I was told that this was the "algae."
- Does anyone (especially a petroleum engineer) have any ideas about this?? The
- person that told me this was reputable, but I'm having a hard time believing
- (to be honest, I had previously assumed that the black was small particles of
- the fuel line that had been "eaten" by the diesel).
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