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D Harrison & R Watts, Supermarkets face £10 million bad fuel bill, Daily Telegraph, 4 March 2007, p 1

Harrison, D; Watts, R; 04/03/2007

In UK, the supply of gasoline through 221 forecourts of three supermarket outlets was contaminated by silicon, used as an anti-foaming agent for diesel fuel, damaging oxygen sensors in thousands of modern cars with computer fuel management systems. The silicon was traced to a chemical additive used by Harvest Energy that shares a storage tank at Vopak's distribution terminal at West Thurrock, Essex.

Abstract details

Journal title: Daily Telegraph

Keywords: 3 Fuel Handling - 3.2 Contamination

Subjects: Energy efficiency, Management and commerce, Quality assurance and control, Distribution, Energy consumption, Chemical and petrochemical, Storage, Transportation, Transmission and Distribution, Gasoil, Gasoline, Aviation fuel handling, Fuel management, Management systems