Performance Enhanced Additives and Kerosene Treatments

WCF Fuels: Ensuring Optimal Performance for Your Home Heating Oil

At WCF Fuels, we work together to provide performance-enhanced additives and kerosene treatments to help you get the most out of your home heating oil.

Anti-Bug Treatment

Combat Microbiological Contamination

The first signs of microbiological contamination, often referred to as "the diesel bug," include continuous blocking of filters with a slimy substance ranging from black to light brown. These "bugs" can quickly form a semi-solid mass that blocks fuel lines and filters, increasing heating oil costs.
Our Anti-Bug treatment addresses immediate microbiological infestations with a "kill" dose and prevents future activity in clean tanks with a "protect" dose. This additive can be used directly in your 28-second oil tank to ensure optimal performance.

Anti Bug

Features of Anti-Bug Treatment:

  • Broad spectrum coverage against bacteria, viruses, fungi, and yeast.
  • Immediate effect without contributing to sludge or slime buildup.
  • Cleanup rates of 24-36 hours.
  • Eliminates filter and gauge plugging.Protects against tank and pipe corrosion.
  • Does not adversely affect fuel combustion or emissions quality.
  • Fully compatible with steels, aluminium, zinc, polyethene, and polypropylene.
  • No adverse impact on wastewater systems or municipal sewage treatment.
  • Approved by WCF Fuels.

Sludge Buster

Maintain Tank Performance and Cleanliness

With heating oil prices fluctuating throughout the year, maintaining your tank's performance is crucial. WCF Fuels has partnered with exocet® to provide Sludge Buster, a formulated chemical additive designed to clean tanks where fuel buildup can be problematic. The product works within hours to remove solids buildup from tank bottoms, walls, and associated pipework.

We recommend regular treatment, especially during winter months when heating oil costs rise, to ensure your fuel flows freely year-round.

Sludge Buster

Features of Sludge Buster:

  • Contains concentrated hydrocarbon deposit control additive/dispersant chemistry.
  • Promotes oil-water separation.
  • Inhibits oil-water emulsion formation.
  • Broad-spectrum solvent washing capability.

Kerosene Lubricity Additive

Protect and Prolong Equipment Life

exocet® Kerosene Lubricity Additive is ideal when using kerosene instead of gas oil or diesel in stationary equipment. This additive can also be used in domestic and commercial heating systems to protect fuel pumps from excessive wear.

Typical applications include heating systems and agricultural grain dryers, especially where fuel pump failures or seizures have been experienced or predicted.

Kerosene Lubricity Additive

Features of Kerosene Lubricity Additive:

  • Forms a protective film on metal surfaces.
  • Reduces contact, friction, and wear.
  • Prolong equipment life.
  • Essential when using kerosene in stationary engines or burners.
  • Compensates for the lack of lubricity in low-sulfur kerosene compared to additised gas oil or diesel.

Diesel Defender

Protect Against Fuel Theft

With billions of liters of fuel stored across the UK, WCF Fuels, your local fuel supplier, aims to help you prevent fuel theft. If you store diesel in bulk, we highly recommend exocet® Diesel Defender.

Tank stickers are available upon request to indicate that your fuel is protected by Diesel Defender.


Diesel Defender

Features of Diesel Defender:

  • Contains Dyeguard® 673KNF technology, compliant with HMRC regulations.
  • Does not interfere with statutory markers or their identification.
  • Unique chromatic profile is distinct from statutory markers.
  • Compliant with the Hydrocarbon Oil (Marking) Regulations 2002.
  • Does not cause false positive results on roadside tests.

To learn more about protecting your fuel and preventing theft, contact our team at 01524 733669 or email enquires@wcfnw.co.uk.

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WCF North West Heating oil - Keeping you warm

With our dedicated services to all domestic homeowners, commercial businesses and agricultural farms across Lancashire, Cumbria, and Cheshire, WCF North West is here for you with our second-to-none services.

 For over 80 years, WCF North West has supplied homes, businesses, and farms throughout the North West with the best prices available. Whether you need home heating oil, bulk diesel, or gas oil, this is the service for you! From depot to depot our hardworking team is committed to providing you the best customer experience possible, through delivering great value for money and going above and beyond expectations. We also offer exclusive deals and brilliant schemes all year round to keep your trust in us at a high, such deals include: recommending a friend and schemes such as the winter priority delivery, which ensures priority delivery to our elderly and most vulnerable customers.  

WCF North West also offers suitable and flexible payment plans to our customers, we are here to serve you!