"Farmers still using old steel storage tanks for diesel fuel run the risk of contaminating their fuel and causing expensive damage to the highly-tuned engines in modern tractors."
He states the inner surfaces of older tanks over the years, with accumulated condensation, have oxidised and deteriorated and the contaminants have found their way into the fuel causing expensive damages to today's modern motors.
Sebco tanks are now six years old and well accepted by farmers.
They come in a variety of sizes to suit farmers and contractors. Self contained and available with their own power source they also have, in case of damage, their own bunding to stop fuel escaping to pollute the surrounding areas. They are fully lockable. Two new products were on display at
the South Island Field Days held at Waimumu.
Both have the same 500 L capacity tank and are able to be lifted by tractor FEL with a forklift or bale forks and loaded onto truck/ute decks and taken to the machines working in remote areas.
The tanks are lockable, have a water filter, venting cap and are supplied with 4m of delivery hose with nozzle and a pump with leads to be connected to a 12 volt battery or by a Euro plug to the tractor.
The first tank is for storing and carting diesel but the second with a different colour scheme, is for storing and transporting AdBlue, an exhaust additive to reduce pollution. Ad Blue is a high purity urea solution used in modern Euro vehicles in additional tanks positioned alongside the regular diesel tank. It is injected in a finely atomised form into the exhaust gases of all new model tractors. About 85 per cent of the emissions are converted by catalytic conversion to benign nitrogen gas and water which are not dangerous to nature.
It is injected at the rate of 3-5% of diesel consumption and is electronically adjusted to engine operating speed and temperature.
"At present there is limited distribution network for AdBlue and it is only available at depots so has to be collected which these new tanks are especially designed for."
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