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Additive Blending
The step at the terminal where base gasoline becomes finished fuel by adding ethanol and, for each company, its own additives.
What it does
Smaller blending terminals are typically where fuel ethanol is blended into gasoline, and companies may add a small amount of their own additives before delivery to their stations.
Basics
| Blends | Fuel ethanol, company additives |
| Where | Blending terminals |
| Fed by | Pipeline and larger storage terminals |
Common failures
- A load leaving without its ethanol or additive
Troubleshooting
- Symptom
- Additive stock not going down while loads go out
- Likely cause
- Injection not working
- What to check
- Check the injection records and the equipment before more loads leave