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The Facility, Part 15: The Diesel System
Three hours into a full-duration fire-pump test, a diesel filter starts to plug. Follow fuel from delivery and storage through transfer pumps, filtration and day tanks. Fuel properties, microbial contamination, emergency generators, autonomy and segregation reveal the hidden failures that a standby-system test must actually expose. Part 15 of 16 in The Facility. Corran Point, its characters, companies and story figures are fictional and illustrative.
Chapters
00:00:00 Cold open: hour three
00:03:13 Recap: the last line of energy
00:05:54 What diesel is, and why it's the fuel of emergencies…
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