Fuel oils include heavy fuel oil (bunker fuel), marine fuel oil (MFO), furnace oil (FO), gas oil (gasoil), heating oils (such as home heating oil),...
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Heavy fuel oil (HFO) is a category of fuel oils of a tar-like consistency. Also known as bunker fuel, or residual fuel oil, HFO is the result or remnant...
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Petroleum (redirect from Medium fuel oil)
were the first to record the use of petroleum as fuel as early as the fourth century BCE. By 347 CE, oil was produced from bamboo-drilled wells in China...
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A fossil fuel is a carbon compound- or hydrocarbon-containing material such as coal, oil, and natural gas, formed naturally in the Earth's crust from...
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Diesel fuel, also called diesel oil, heavy oil (historically) or simply diesel, is any liquid fuel specifically designed for use in a diesel engine, a...
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fossil fuel power station is a thermal power station which burns a fossil fuel, such as coal, oil, or natural gas, to produce electricity. Fossil fuel power...
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Fossil fuel phase-out Fuel card Fuel cell Fuel container Fuel management systems Fuel oil Fuel poverty Filling station Hydrogen economy Hypergolic fuel List...
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Vegetable oil can be used as an alternative fuel in diesel engines and in heating oil burners. When vegetable oil is used directly as a fuel, in either...
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ANFO (redirect from Ammonium Nitrate Fuel Oil)
ANFO (/ˈænfoʊ/ AN-foh) (or AN/FO, for ammonium nitrate/fuel oil) is a widely used bulk industrial high explosive. It consists of 94% porous prilled ammonium...
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refined into products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum naphtha...
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electricity from coal by 2030 and the rest of the world by 2040. Crude oil is refined into fuel oil, diesel and petrol. The refined products are primarily for transportation...
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and diesel fuel) and their by-products, heavier fuels used by large ships such as bunker fuel, or the spill of any oily refuse or waste oil.[citation needed]...
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Kerosene (redirect from Paraffin (fuel))
aviation fuel standardized at −47 °C (−53 °F). Grade 1-K kerosene freezes around −40 °C (−40 °F, 233 K). The process of distilling crude oil/petroleum...
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used for food (e.g., olive oil), fuel (e.g., heating oil), medical purposes (e.g., mineral oil), lubrication (e.g. motor oil), and the manufacture of many...
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Heating oil is any petroleum product or other oil used for heating; it is a fuel oil. Most commonly, it refers to low viscosity grades of fuel oil used for...
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refined into the common fuels most people know such as gasoline and diesel fuel, in addition to other common fuels. Other oil production statistics may...
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oil needs and aims to bring that down to 67% by 2022 by replacing it with local hydrocarbon exploration, renewable energy and indigenous ethanol fuel...
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including cedar oil, cypress oil, and olive oil were used during the mummification process. Vegetable oils have been used as lighting fuel for lamps, cooking...
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List of largest power stations (redirect from List of fuel oil power stations)
those that run on coal, fuel oils, nuclear fuel, natural gas, oil shale and peat, while renewable power stations run on fuel sources such as biomass,...
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or a derived product: Fuel oil, liquid fuel burned for heat or power Heating oil, liquid fuel Oil or OIL may also refer to: Oil paint, paint with pigments...
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allowed to use low-tax fuel oil; instead, taxable diesel must be used for fuel. Currently there are no naked-eye visible dyes in car fuels sold in Poland. Previously...
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Fuel injection is the introduction of fuel in an internal combustion engine, most commonly automotive engines, by the means of a fuel injector. This article...
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Aviation biofuel (redirect from Sustainable aviation fuel)
global jet fuel use. Aviation biofuel can be produced from plant or animal sources such as Jatropha, algae, tallows, waste oils, palm oil, Babassu, and...
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Gasoline (redirect from Fuel stabilizer)
additives. It is a high-volume profitable product produced in crude oil refineries. The fuel-characteristics of a particular gasoline-blend, which will resist...
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Ammonium nitrate (section Mixture with fuel oil)
and fuel oil) Astrolite (ammonium nitrate and hydrazine rocket fuel) Goma-2 (ammonium nitrate, nitroglycol, nitrocellulose, dibutyl phthalate and fuel) Minol...
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Mazut (Russian: Мазут, romanized: Mazut) is a low-quality heavy fuel oil, used in power plants and similar applications in Iran and some countries of the...
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matter within the rock (kerogen) into synthetic oil and gas. The resulting oil can be used immediately as a fuel or upgraded to meet refinery feedstock specifications...
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Jet fuel or aviation turbine fuel (ATF, also abbreviated avtur) is a type of aviation fuel designed for use in aircraft powered by gas-turbine engines...
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An oil terminal (also called a tank farm, tankfarm, oil installation or oil depot) is an industrial facility for the storage of oil, petroleum and petrochemical...
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British Seagull (section Fuel/oil mix)
bolted a small brass fuel tank whose 10:1, or 25:1 depending on age, fuel/oil mix was gravity-fed to the carburettor via a fuel line. Starting was effected...
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