Fuel Filtration

Modern fuels are made to adhere to the standards addressing emissions, equipment reliability, safety, and storage. Therefore, our fuel filtration technology follows the same standards. It is of high importance for us to know the problems faced as fuels continue to change.

FAME (Fatty Acid Methyl Esters or "Bio-Diesel") has a lower interfacial tension (IFT) with water, which makes it much more difficult to physically separate than a traditional distillate petroleum.

Previous coalescing filtration technology commonly used a hydrophobically treated cellulose and/or Teflon-coated mesh to accomplish the coalescing and separation of water.  This was effective on traditional diesel fuel, however the FAME and its respective lower IFT caused these early coalescing technologies to become ineffective.