Filtering Diesel

[Pistaaah]

I need to move some red diesel from one tank to another and am conscious that there may be a little water in the bottom and maybe some small particles of dirt are likely. I will pump it into a clean tank, move it, then pump it into my current storage tank. I want to fit a filter on the 1" bsp outlet of the tank that is staying, but am unsure whether one filter will remove water and dirt, or whether I need two filters and if so, which order I fit them in. Both filters will be gravity fed and the dirt removal one, I understand should be 10 micron?

Looking for some advice please as to what I need.

Thanks

[E-bmw]

Filters won't remove water.

Particulates will be removed by pretty much any diesel filter such as is fitted in line in a car fuel line.

Perhaps something like.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235505232396?itmmeta=01...

A separator like this will help get rid of any water, but they are manual.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/305437567475?itmmeta=01...

Edited by E-bmw on Tuesday 9th April 19:35

[GreenV8S]

Depending how bad the diesel is and how important it is to you that you end up with clean pure diesel, you might want to set up a full fuel polishing system. That would usually consist of a cyclonic water separator, filter and coalescer.

The water separator removes undisolved water.
The filter removes solid particulates. A 10 micron pre-filter is probably fine enough for most purposes.
The coalescer removes dissolved contamination, emulsified water and so on.

How much of this is worth doing would depend what the diesel is going in.

[ssray]

Look up filtering veg oil, usually a few stages.
Bedsheets then toilet rolls
Watch this town and copy the IRA? Traffic cones and cat litter?

[E-bmw]

ssray said:

Look up filtering veg oil, usually a few stages.
Bedsheets then toilet rolls
Watch this town and copy the IRA? Traffic cones and cat litter?

What on earth are you on about?

[General Price]

E-bmw said:

ssray said:

Look up filtering veg oil, usually a few stages.
Bedsheets then toilet rolls
Watch this town and copy the IRA? Traffic cones and cat litter?

What on earth are you on about?

Fullers earth(cat litter) draws the dye out of red diesel when you filter the diesel through it,don't know if it takes out water.

[TwinKam]

General Price said:

E-bmw said:

ssray said:

Look up filtering veg oil, usually a few stages.
Bedsheets then toilet rolls
Watch this town and copy the IRA? Traffic cones and cat litter?

What on earth are you on about?

Fullers earth(cat litter) draws the dye out of red diesel when you filter the diesel through it,don't know if it takes out water.

...or the cat piss...

[donkmeister]

General Price said:

E-bmw said:

ssray said:

Look up filtering veg oil, usually a few stages.
Bedsheets then toilet rolls
Watch this town and copy the IRA? Traffic cones and cat litter?

What on earth are you on about?

Fullers earth(cat litter) draws the dye out of red diesel when you filter the diesel through it,don't know if it takes out water.

That might explain why every petshop in my (semi rural) area is selling clumping cat litter faster than they can get it in, but all the other stuff stays on the shelves

[E-bmw]

donkmeister said:

General Price said:

E-bmw said:

ssray said:

Look up filtering veg oil, usually a few stages.
Bedsheets then toilet rolls
Watch this town and copy the IRA? Traffic cones and cat litter?

What on earth are you on about?

Fullers earth(cat litter) draws the dye out of red diesel when you filter the diesel through it,don't know if it takes out water.

That might explain why every petshop in my (semi rural) area is selling clumping cat litter faster than they can get it in, but all the other stuff stays on the shelves

Surely that wouldn't help as when it "clumps up" no liquid would pass through.

[ssray]

E-bmw said:

What on earth are you on about?

Which bit?