Fuel Treatment for Diesel Engines

Hello CR4'ers!

We are sending a diesel generator (about 1200 kVA) to Cape Verde for use as the main power source. Continuous duty 24/7 operation.

Fuel storage tanks capacity for about 15 days. Lots of fuel stored.

The manufacturer recommends a "grounded kidney loop filtration system" for the bulk storage fuel tanks for continuous filtration of stored fuel.

Is the use of a centrifugal separator a redundancy for the kidney filtration system or are these two things meant to serve different purposes?

Can one of them substitute the other?

I am still to survey the supplier fuel quality at the site which I think will help to define what to do in the design for fuel treatment, Agree?... If I had to guess I would say that diesel fuel quality in Cape Verde will be less than ideal but it's only a guess. Thoughts?

Since there is no redundancy in the generator we are putting a lot of attention in the design to ensure that the one generator runs as close to ideal conditions as possible to avoid down time.

Maybe both kidney filtration and centrifuges are warranted in this case?

agree?