Business World |
March 2015
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Amidst the push for the de-sulpherization of
fuels in the United States, the implementa-
tions would have a profound effect on the
sulfur concentration of fuel and its impact on
engines and how they operated. One of those
effects would be that the fuel being used was
greatly diminishing and becoming less stable
- a far cry from the way things were 25 years
before when you could store diesel fuel in-
side of a tank for more than a year without
any issues. Now, due to the de-sulpherized
fuels, storage is between 6 and 12 months.
As mechanical contractors and builders of
fuel system infrastructures – from hospitals
and data centers to government institutions,
Refuel Systems connected the dots.
“We saw a synergy there with what the in-
dustry was facing,” Curtis said. “We build the
tank arms and the pumps and the controls
to actually build these power plants. If there
was a single point of failure within these in-
stitutions, then we wanted to address that.”
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As the industry on the compliance side be-
gan to play catch up, the technology came
