Ad-blue usage and storage

[Alfie]

Having just changed my combine to one that uses ad-blue can I have thoughts on how much I'll need for say a 250hr harvest. Also how do you store product and which is best pump to go for? 200L barrel or IBC? Never used the stuff up to now thankfully!! Combine is a 9230 axial flow. Cheers[emoji3][emoji106]

 

[Cowabunga]

Lots of posts about Adblue in the Machinery section. At worse you may use up to 5% of fuel consumption. So if your combine uses 8000 litres of diesel, it will use no more than 400 litres of Adblue. That just a rough guide but if I were you I'd buy 2X200 litres for harvest. If you had a couple of big tractors using it as well, then a 1000 litre IBC would be appropriate.

 

[TomD]

Don't mess around with barrels get an Ibc keep out of direct sunlight will last a lot longer than the time it will take you to use it!

 

[Derrick Hughes]

i have used two tankfull in 30,000 miles

 

[Cowabunga]

i have used two tankfull in 30,000 miles

That's some going for a combine. Only two 1000litre IBC's.

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

IBC's are the best way to buy in your situation.
As said keep out of sunlight, otherwise it keeps fine.

 

[Shutesy]

i have used two tankfull in 30,000 miles

How does what I presume is your cars usage, have any relevance to what a brand new combine will use ??

 

[Robert K]

We have one IBC with gravity fed nozzle it's easier than messing around with cans

 

[Cowabunga]

We have one IBC with gravity fed nozzle it's easier than messing around with cans

How high does it need to be off the ground to fill a combine’s Adblue tank?

 

[Alfie]

I guess you use a pump or put it into cans and pour it in?! Or put IBC on telehandler forks?! Or put IBC on workshop roof! [emoji87]

 

[Robert K]

How high does it need to be off the ground to fill a combine’s Adblue tank?

Ours is sited on top of the diesel tank

 

[Cowabunga]

Ours is sited on top of the diesel tank

Some are up by the engine apparently. No idea where it is on a Case 9230 though.

 

[Alfie]

It's up by engine above rear lhs wheel

 

[yellow belly]

I use an ibc and a funell with washed out 20 litre rup drums
the problem I have with pumps or gravity is that it is too easy to put adblue in the diesel tank

I have had an add blue combine for 5 years keep the tank topped up no more than 60 litres per day put in while filling with fuel the 9230 we had needed so little servicing that filling with fuel took longer than all the other jobs in the morning

 

[kevindb880]

What happens if it’s left in direct sunlight?

 

[kevindb880]

Where’s the best place to buy the stuff?

 

[Cowabunga]

Where’s the best place to buy the stuff?

Yara are one of the leading EU producers, as you would expect of a fertiliser chemical company which has a large established urea manufacturing facility. I think its brand name for adblue is Air1.
Air1 is distributed by Certas Energy which has depots over the most of the UK and Ireland.


If you need at least 2000 litres of adblue and have your own clean IBC's, then delivery by tanker is by far the most economical at around £0.22 per litre.
Agriemach Ltd is one source. Greenox is another.