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A large domain of single-celled, prokaryote microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria have a wide range of shapes, ranging from spheres to rods and spirals. Bacteria are ubiquitous in every habitat on Earth, growing in soil, water, and deep in the Earth's crust, as well as in organic matter and the live bodies of plants and animals.

Biodiesel is the most common biofuel used worldwide. Using transesterification, biodiesel is produced from oils or fats and is a liquid similar in composition to fossil/mineral diesel.

Biodiesel consists mostly of fatty acid methyl (or ethyl) esters (FAME). The ingredients of biodiesel include animal fats, vegetable oils, soy, rapeseed, jatropha, mahua, mustard, flax, sunflower, palm oil, hemp, field pennycress, pongamia pinnata and algae.

Diesel bug microbes take advantage of just about every food source on the planet, including diesel fuel. Microbes only need water and food to proliferate. Diesel bug microbes include bacteria, yeasts and moulds.

Diesel bug microbes tend to prefer to live at the fuel/water interface, living in the water and feeding on diesel fuel. They also have a tendency to ‘hide’ in the lower flow areas of a diesel fuel system where the lack of turbulence allows them to thrive in relative safety.

Check for the presence of water, remove any free water and sludge, clean the inside of the storage tank and test diesel fuel for diesel bug contamination regularly.

an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon like oil coal and natural gas

Readily takes up and retains moisture under conditions of humidity and temperature

The most destructive of the jet fuel fungus microbes that grows in aircraft fuel is the fungus Hormoconis resinae. Compared to single-cell yeasts and molds, it produces far more biomass and is the most common cause of microbial corrosion in aircraft fuel tanks.

an organism that is unicellular or lives in a colony of cellular organisms

an organism that is unicellular or lives in a colony of cellular organisms

Growth of harmful micro-organisms. There are a number of micro-organisms able to thrive in diesel fuel which are described as the diesel bug, jet fuel fungus or slime amongst other names.