As a Hospital I can attest that we are required to be able to run on generator power only, at 80% load for 72 hours.That - my friends - is alot of diesel fuel. We have two fo these and we actually have the ability to run all of the required equipment for 5 days and stuff thats not required on a seperate generator - such as Air conditioning for about 72 hours.
Peter On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Dan Penoff <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, some do. > > Hospitals and government buildings are required by code to have a minimum > amount of fuel on site based on full load consumption over a fixed period of > time. > > I saw plenty of places in my day that had large fuel supplies, mainly > because the tanks were cheap at the time of construction or the specifying > engineer though that "more must be better!" > > The major problem with large volumes of diesel is keeping it stable over > long periods of time. > > If you think getting algae in your MB tank is a mess, try the same in a > 10,000 gallon tank. > > It spreads rapidly, and in a matter of days will destroy the system and do > some major damage to the fuel system if it isn't caught and remediated > before running the unit. > > Not a pretty sight to see, and VERY expensive to fix. > > Dan > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 12, 2011, at 3:14 PM, "Allan Streib" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday, October 12, 2011 3:05 PM, "Dan Penoff" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> The definition of standby service uses the phrase "for the duration of > >> the outage." > >> > >> No time frame is specified. > > > > But one is assumed... most people don't put 10,000 gallon fuel tanks > > on their standby generators to cover the case of the power being out > > for a year. > > > > Allan > > -- > > 1983 300D > > 1979 300SD > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
