Emergency Diesel Generators at Financial Processing Center, Hospitals, Airports, etc.

A North American computer processing center for an international credit card company occupies an entire city block and has redundant electric current monitors, uninterrupted power source protected, hot
on-line emergency diesel generators to maintain operations in the event of a brown out or power failure. The monitoring systems and generators are routinely brought on-line for 30 minutes every calendar quarter to prove availability.

During a recent power outage, the system successfully switched to their diesel generators. However, the diesel engines failed four hours into the power outage, resulting in a crash of the entire computer operations system.  Inspection of the generators determined that the injector tips were badly fouled and the fuel filters were plugged with a black slimy residue.  Continue reading the article to find out what happened next...