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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Diesel fuel, also called diesel oil, heavy oil (historically) or simply diesel, is a liquid fuel specifically designed for use in a diesel engine, a type...
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domestic fuel predates recorded history. Coal was burned in some early furnaces for the smelting of metal ore, while semi-solid hydrocarbons from oil seeps...
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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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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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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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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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as hydrogen fuel (for automotive uses), ethanol, jet fuel and bio-diesel, which are all categorized as liquid fuels. Emulsified fuels of oil in water, such...
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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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fuel, as well as their by-products. Additionally, heavier fuels used by large ships, such as bunker fuel, or spills of any oily refuse or waste oil,...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Oil engine may refer to: Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine, the first internal combustion engine using heavy oil as fuel Crude oil engine, an internal combustion...
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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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low-grade fuel for power generation and district heating or used as a raw material in chemical and construction-materials processing. Heating oil shale to...
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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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Texaco (redirect from Texas Fuel Company)
American oil brand owned and operated by Chevron Corporation. Its flagship product is its fuel "Texaco with Techron". It also owned the Havoline motor oil brand...
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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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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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