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1060 Osgood Street
North Andover, MA 01845
Contacts: Paul Nazzaro, Paul Nazzaro Jr., Lou Nazzaro, Leo
Verruso and Nicholas Nazzaro
Phone: (978) 258-8360
Fax: (978) 258-8354
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We’re a full-service fuel quality company. When you’re paying
attention to your brand and image in the marketplace, you’re in a
position to differentiate your company from the competition. In
a competitive landscape, whether it is on the product side or the
service side of your business, you’ll need a full-service fuel quality
partner like Advanced Fuel Solutions Inc. to help navigate through
the many challenges facing the industry.
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Heating Oil Additives:
If you’re interested in improving opera-
tional profits and customer satisfaction, AFS’s flagship treatment,
HeatDoc, provides system cleaning, stability and improved system
performance by cleaning and controlling fuel contaminants from
tank to burner tip. HeatDoc protects system components from
corrosive and unstable oil, controls tank sediment, and reduces
fuel-related service calls that can cause customer dissatisfac-
tion and lost profits. AFS’s proprietary Greenburn Combustion
Technology treatment accelerates combustion, providing lower
emissions, reduced soot, fewer deposits and more heat transfer,
improving fuel efficiency by as much as 3 percent. What does this
mean for the dealer? A cleaner fuel system and heat exchanger that
will reduce fuel-related service calls and time on system tune-ups,
resulting in a healthier bottom line.
AFS-PF (Proprietary Formulas):
AFS develops commercial-
grade technologies for the downstream marketplace, including
treatment packages for on-road, off-road, marine diesel and home
heating oil. With the AFS Optimum Discovery process, clients
receive fuel treatment solutions designed for their market demands
to improve their operational bottom line.
Injection Systems:
AFS offers a wide range of truck-mount and
terminal-installed injection systems to enable dealers to transition
from hand-blending additives. AFS also offers a fuel quality plan
for bulk plants to help buyers enforce proper buying specifications
and verification of those specifications, as well as the handling,
storage and distribution of the fuels.
New Products & Services:
OPT - Anti-Foulant Chemistry
(Optimum Performance Technology): Next-generation diesel fuel
solutions are now available to help diesel fuel withstand the extreme
temperatures and pressures of the latest HPCR injection systems.
Field- and laboratory-tested treatments now contain advanced
diesel detergents as well as a unique component recognized today
as anti-foulant chemistry. Once the fuel has been stabilized with
anti-foulant, there is no creation of carbonaceous deposits, and
filters remain clean, as existing deposits are removed to prevent
injector failure. The results, with testing of two major fleets recently
completed, indicated 2.5% to 4% fuel economy improvement and
reduced maintenance costs associated with fuel filter PMIs.
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AFS has more than 16 years of experience working with biodiesel
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opportunities on a national level. With our support,
customers are able to transition to this new fuel with biodiesel-
specific treatments to address cold weather operability and fuel
stability. Blending strategies range from hand or splash blending to
in-line batch blending. As you might expect, splash blending offers
a quick solution but may leave the dealer at risk of unblended layers
of biodiesel potentially causing gelling issues downstream. High
Pressure in-line rack or inbound blending eliminates any concerns
with the blends on the street today. That being said, it is important
to know what feedstock was used to produce the biodiesel used in
the blending process. When blending biodiesel with #2, always load
the base stock and then the biodiesel to compensate for the heavier-
weight biodiesel product to produce better blends. Feedstocks – soy,
waste vegetable oil, tallow – all have different cold flow character-
istics. Make sure the feedstock being used is compatible with the
temperature conditions in your marketplace.
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Tank Housekeeping, Housekeeping, Housekeeping! The
Battelle Report published after multiple independent analyses of
ULSD corrosion issues concluded that corrosion in systems storing
and dispensing ULSD was likely due to the dispersal of acetic acid
throughout USTs. It is likely produced by bacteria feeding on low
levels of ethanol contamination. Disturbances during fuel deliveries
cause these acids to move throughout the system. The constant
wetting and drying of the equipment allows this acid to severely
and rapidly erode metals. Tank maintenance, including testing
for water, stability, sedimentation and biologic contamination in
your fuel, provides insight into the occurrence of the corrosion
phenomenon while simultaneously treating to keep these key fuel
quality metrics at acceptable levels.
Fuel Quality
EDITOR’S NOTE: Here are our Fuel Quality listings for 2014. Oil & Energy recently reached out to additive suppliers who serve the distil-
lates marketplace. Some companies chose to answer questions we posed to them in our survey, and those answers appear beneath their listing and
products information. We asked the suppliers three questions: Do you have any new products or services? What advice do you have for dealers
on blending distillates and biodiesel and handling and storing blended fuels? How can fuel marketers prevent corrosion and damage to fueling
equipment related to the storage of ULSD? Oil & Energy would like to thank the companies that took the time to participate in our coverage.
Fuel Quality
Listings for 2014
