So how does algae grow in diesel tanks? The tank I got the heating oil from was in a basement. Vehicle tanks certainly don't get any sunlight. The one barrel of heating oil I had from before that I pumped out the bottom had a bunch of wierd clumpy crap I assumed was algae and it was a black poly barrel. Is it fungi in there?

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even the diesel aditive companies say algae,but their wrong

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That home heating oil is the devil's wine. Watch for water contamination and filter clogging crap at the bottom of the tank. I save it for the summer because if I run the blower the stink gets in the car.

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Yeah I've experimented with it in the Mercedes a little just to see if it seemed any noisier or power difference and all I got was a water filled filter. Maybe it needs to run through the centrifuge with some wmo. It was kind of odd though. The crap I dumped out of the filter had a clearish top layer but not a bunch of water on the bottom. A little bit but not much. I had run it through a filter sock that didn't pull much chunky stuff out either.

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My "new" E300D with 48K miles had one negative thing that I discovered after changing the fuel strainers.
Algae or Fungi whatever the heck
I am on the issue now with lots of additives.
I guess I dodged a bullet.
Despite the amount of gunk (I knocked off half of it before taking the foto) the car ran fine!

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Home heating oil is generally high sulfur, mix that with water from the combustion process and you get sulfuric acid. This acid build up is why high efficiency / condensing oil furnaces are virtually non existent.

I guess you'd need a ceramic or glass condensing section installed that can trap the acid and drain it safely away.

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