Diesel Spills · Fleets and Fuel Islands

Diesel Spill Cleaner That Lifts the Fuel Off the Concrete.

Diesel on a fuel island or a yard is the most common spill a fleet has. Pads soak some of it and the stain and the smell stay. Hasten Cleanse, diluted from a pail and sprayed on the spill, bonds to the diesel, suppresses the vapor, and lifts it from the concrete or soil so it can be recovered and rinsed. Water-based, no flash point.

Concrete, asphalt, soil. Spray, agitate with a broom, recover, rinse.

Fuel islands and shops. Rinse water goes to the separator as non-hazardous.

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On a Diesel Spill

Stop the source. Contain if it is spreading.

Spray diluted Hasten Cleanse, 1:20 from the pail, over the spill. Vapor drops as it bonds.

Agitate with a brush or broom on concrete; work it into soil; let it sit on water.

Recover, vac, pump, or pads for the last of the water. Runoff is non-hazardous.

Rinse hard surfaces at 1:50.

Absorbent pads soak up the oil and become oily waste you pay to dispose of. A diluted spray of Hasten Cleanse bonds to the hydrocarbon, suppresses the vapor coming off it, and lifts it from concrete, soil, steel, or water so it can be recovered. The spill gets cleaner, not just drier, and there is no bale of oily pads at the end.

Why It Works on Diesel

Vapor

Diesel vapor down

Bonds to the fuel and slows vaporization. Less smell, less exposure for the crew.

Surface

Lifts from concrete

Breaks the bond between fuel and concrete or asphalt. Agitation finishes it.

Water

Non-hazardous rinse

Suspended diesel in water to the separator. No solvent.

Limits

Fresh and recent

Old, oxidized stains that have set into concrete for years are a different problem. It lifts fuel; it does not bleach.

What Hasten Cleanse does not do

It is not a solvent and not a caustic. It will not dissolve, melt, or strip material that is physically bonded or baked onto a surface, scale, rust, hardened deposits, coatings. It lifts hydrocarbons, oil, grease, crude, sludge, and paraffin, by emulsifying them, and it needs agitation, circulation, pressure, or heat to do that work. If your problem is a stuck-on solid rather than a hydrocarbon film or residue, tell us and we will say so.

Pails, Pallets, Shipping

No added bacteriaNothing in the pail is alive. Hasten Cleanse feeds the microbes you already have, in a treatment plant, a separator, or the soil, instead of competing with them.

Full concentrateSold as concentrate and diluted on site, 1:10 for heavy residue to 1:50 for light. Compare products by working gallons per drum, not by the drum.

No flash point, no placardsWater-based and non-flammable. Ships as standard freight in 5-gallon pails, 55-gallon drums, 275-gallon totes, and bulk. Gulf Coast delivery in one to two days.

How to Clean Up a Diesel Spill on Concrete, Step by Step

This is the procedure fleet shops and fuel islands use with Hasten Cleanse. It works on a fresh spill and on the dark patch that has been there for a week. The older the spill, the more agitation and the more passes it takes.

1. Stop the source and keep it off the drain. Close the valve or right the container, then block the storm drain with a boom or absorbent sock. Diesel in a storm drain is a reportable release in most jurisdictions.

2. Pick up the free liquid first. Absorbent pads, granular absorbent, or a squeegee into a pan. Chemical goes on the film that is left, not on a puddle. Bag the used absorbent for disposal as oily waste.

3. Mix Hasten Cleanse at 1 to 10 for a fresh spill, 1 to 5 for a stain. One gallon of concentrate makes ten gallons of working solution at the lighter rate. Pump sprayer, mop bucket, or pressure washer all work.

4. Apply, let it dwell, agitate. Wet the whole area and let it sit five to ten minutes. Then scrub with a stiff broom or run the pressure washer. The chemistry lifts the diesel into the water; the agitation gets it out of the pores of the concrete.

5. Rinse and collect. Rinse with water and collect the rinse into a containment or a wet vac. The rinse is non-hazardous and non-flammable, which is what lets most shops send it to the oil water separator or the sanitary sewer under their existing permit. Check your local rules.

6. Repeat on old stains. A spill that has soaked in for days needs a second and sometimes a third pass at the stronger dilution. The surface lightens each pass as the diesel comes out of the concrete.

What to expect

The diesel smell drops first, usually within the first application, because the vapor is being suppressed at the surface. The stain lightens over the passes. A fresh spill on sealed concrete comes clean in one round. An old spill on rough, unsealed concrete may keep a shadow that only grinding removes, because the diesel has gone deeper than any surface chemical reaches. That is the honest limit, and it is why the pail should be on the truck before the spill, not ordered after it.

Diesel Spill Questions, Answered Straight

Will it remove an old diesel stain?

It lifts fuel. Stains that have set into concrete for years may lighten but it is not a bleach or a solvent.

Can I use it at a fuel island?

Yes. Spray, agitate, rinse to the separator.

Is it safe to store on the truck?

Yes. Non-flammable, non-hazardous.

Dilution?

1:20 from the pail in a pump sprayer.

Pallets?

Yes. Pails by the pallet for fleets.