Adblue consumption.

[Agri Spec Solicitor]

Please can anyone help with this little problem?
New NH T6.175 (145 HP and a boost in hard work) is our first tractor to need adblue.
I gather the fluid goes off after about 18 months maximum.
If we get a 210l barrel for about £90 and a £30 hand pump and a 2m delivery hose that seems a reasonable option compared with a smaller drum, a jug, and risks of spillage or contamination.
But how many engine hours would we get from the 210l? I know there will be a range so all I ask is what users find is typical for their application?
Our use will be about 150 hours, of which no more than 50 would be hard work on a baler and subsoiler. The rest is fairly light.
Any guidance gratefully received.

 

[z.man]

A litre every 4 working hours roughly on average, hardly any when not working hard this is with case tractors

 

[robbie]

I've got a older engined maxxum 130mc and a 205lt drum lasts over a year and that tractor does 800-1000 hours a year.

 

[d williams]

Please can anyone help with this little problem?
New NH T6.175 (145 HP and a boost in hard work) is our first tractor to need adblue.
I gather the fluid goes off after about 18 months maximum.
If we get a 210l barrel for about £90 and a £30 hand pump and a 2m delivery hose that seems a reasonable option compared with a smaller drum, a jug, and risks of spillage or contamination.
But how many engine hours would we get from the 210l? I know there will be a range so all I ask is what users find is typical for their application?
Our use will be about 150 hours, of which no more than 50 would be hard work on a baler and subsoiler. The rest is fairly light.
Any guidance gratefully received.

We have a t7 200 and uses three tanks of fuel to a tank of ad blue not sure of t6 range just be carful as ours will derate at 25% empty

 

[Brisel]

A 210 litre barrel of AdBlue lasted around 6 months in my 215hp JD sprayer tractor, so very roughly 500 hours of work. It was only when I had a new combine & harvest hire tractor, both also on AdBlue that I decided to move to 1000 litre IBCs. I'm on my second IBC since July 2018 and haven't used much since the end of harvest. I think sunlight causes the most harm so I have a tarpaulin over it.

Consumption varies hugely. On light work like spraying it doesn't use much but a few days of discing with it on its knees the consumption was much higher. I'd originally thought that light use would mean higher consumption per engine hour but the opposite is true. Hard work = higher combustion temperatures and more NOx to reduce with the AdBlue.

 

[always busy]

I have t6175 same as yours, and 1000 ltrs ibc does 2500 hours.

 

[Rob Graham]

Fendt 718 using 0.1l/HR here and Merlo using it as well, but unfortunately we cannot risk the older generation from mistaking the 2 fluids so using 25l drums. Expensive but less risk of contamination and use a specific dish stored in a cupboard for AdBlue

 

[Fish]

I gather the fluid goes off after about 18 months maximum..

Myth I'm afraid, our first ibc lasted 6 years without any problem at all.

With that tractor and work load, I would doubt you would use more than 60 ltrs a year, so it might be best to just buy the add blue in 20ltr containers and reduce the risk of contamination.

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

@Richard98

 

[Jd Everytime]

Got new John Deere 6130r 2017 and I started with 200l barrel of a blue. Just about empty now at 1100 hrs. About 5l/hr

 

[Happy]

Would seem there is quite wide variations.
MF 7718 has used a 210lt barrel in 330 hours.

 

[KennyO]

Would seem there is quite wide variations.
MF 7718 has used a 210lt barrel in 330 hours.

Ive used most of a 200 lt drum in just over 200 hrs with a nh t7.190. Nearly all ploughing and drilling. Have filled my ford ranger from the drum too.

 

[deere150]

Fastrac 4220 here, averages 0.76 litres a hour, needless to say I buy it in a IBC

 

[betweenthelines]

It's only liquid fertiliser FFS. Use it for topdressing if you are worried.

 

[Lofty1984]

Would seem there is quite wide variations.
MF 7718 has used a 210lt barrel in 330 hours.

They like a bloody drop mind mine in work drinks the stuff

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

There’s a wide variation depending on how hard the engine is working, hence level of NoX the catalyser is trying to keep knock out.

Latest Final Tier 4 engines will use more AB their the previous T4i (Stage IIIB) engines due to tighter emissions limits and the fact that CNH in particular are purely only using AB to control NoX limits (with a soot catcher for particulates) whereas JD and Deutz are using a mixture of AB control and EGR to do the same thing so will use less AB than a CNH donk in Final T4 guise.

Simple eh

 

[Richard98]

We’ve got a t6.175 too, the first tractor here with adblue, it’s used about 1 tank of adblue to 3 tanks of diesel so far, That is all ploughing and power harrowing but not working very hard, 15–1600 revs. I’ve been surprised how little it uses. We’ve got a 210l barrel and hand pump in the diesel tank shed so no sunlight. We roughly do 4-500 hours a year but only had it since November so not sure how long the barrel will last yet

 

[Agri Spec Solicitor]

Thanks so much for all the guidance.
The adblue price is almost £1 per litre in the 20l drums but 40 odd pence in the 210l. Consumption difficult to predict and maybe the stated shelf life is pessimistic so I am going to buy the bigger drum and hand pump. My contractors can get some when they get diesel so that it will be consumed in 18 months or so.

 

[icanshootwell]

My 516 on average heavy and light use would use about 200 litre drum to 500 hrs.

 

[hally]

Got new John Deere 6130r 2017 and I started with 200l barrel of a blue. Just about empty now at 1100 hrs. About 5l/hr

Exactly the same as ours 200l for 1000hrs