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...
21 KB (2,328 words) - 02:02, 24 July 2024
and residues (the heavier fractions). Fuel oils include heavy fuel oil (bunker fuel), marine fuel oil (MFO), furnace oil (FO), gas oil (gasoil), heating...
43 KB (4,931 words) - 15:53, 25 February 2024
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...
6 KB (703 words) - 15:15, 3 August 2024
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...
51 KB (6,171 words) - 01:27, 6 September 2024
Naphtha (redirect from Heavy naphtha)
regions, the name naphtha refers to crude oil or refined petroleum products such as kerosene or diesel fuel. Naphtha is also known as Shellite in Australia...
16 KB (1,660 words) - 21:11, 22 August 2024
Heavy oil may refer to: Coal tar creosote, a wood preservative and waterproofing agent Diesel fuel Fuel oil that contains residual oil left over from petroleum...
258 bytes (65 words) - 10:25, 14 March 2020
manufacturer Wärtsilä. It is designed for large container ships that run on heavy fuel oil. Its largest 14-cylinder version is 13.5 meters high, 26.59 meters long...
6 KB (387 words) - 21:08, 4 April 2024
heavy fuel oil, combusted to heat a steam generator. The vaporized water then drove a turbine, which powered an alternator. As Switzerland's sole oil-fired...
45 KB (4,933 words) - 10:35, 17 July 2024
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]...
90 KB (9,836 words) - 19:46, 7 September 2024
Petroleum (redirect from Medium fuel oil)
into diesel fuel, kerosene and jet fuel. Alkanes with more than 16 carbon atoms can be refined into fuel oil and lubricating oil. At the heavier end of the...
131 KB (14,536 words) - 19:48, 1 September 2024
The primary concern of peak oil is that global transportation heavily relies upon the use of gasoline and diesel fuel. Switching transportation to electric...
104 KB (10,816 words) - 23:27, 1 September 2024
sometimes described as oil sands, but these deposits are non-bituminous, falling instead into the category of heavy or extra-heavy oil due to their lower...
142 KB (18,044 words) - 18:01, 5 September 2024
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...
52 KB (5,819 words) - 02:30, 24 July 2024
last for two weeks. On July 31, MV Mirola 1, carrying two drums of heavy fuel oil and 3,000 liters of diesel, was found abandoned, ran aground, and tilted...
37 KB (3,132 words) - 04:29, 5 September 2024
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...
13 KB (1,666 words) - 05:48, 14 August 2024
plant from 2012, re-fitted to run on natural gas and gasoil, instead of heavy fuel oil, in 2017, operated by Delimara 3 Power Generation Ltd The power station...
8 KB (740 words) - 20:17, 18 July 2024
structurally deficient oil tanker MV Prestige, carrying 77,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil. During a storm, it burst a tank on 13 November, and French, Spanish...
29 KB (3,399 words) - 10:33, 3 August 2024
Heavy crude oil (or extra heavy crude oil) is highly viscous oil that cannot easily flow from production wells under normal reservoir conditions. It is...
21 KB (2,306 words) - 16:09, 22 July 2024
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...
45 KB (5,931 words) - 08:49, 2 September 2024
Pacific's turbines burned Bunker C heavy fuel oil that was less expensive than diesel. But this highly viscous fuel is difficult to handle, with a room-temperature...
21 KB (2,456 words) - 07:25, 1 September 2024
refined into products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum naphtha...
103 KB (10,450 words) - 16:10, 3 September 2024
platforms are the liquid fueled engines (diesel and heavy fuel oil) B32:40, the more modern B33:45 and the C25:33 and their gas fueled variants B35:40, B36:45...
7 KB (903 words) - 04:20, 12 May 2024
Whitegate refinery (category Fossil fuels in the Republic of Ireland)
Ireland's only oil refinery. It has a capacity of 75,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd), sufficient to provide 40 percent of Ireland's fuel requirements....
13 KB (850 words) - 21:36, 16 June 2024
have resulted in oil spills. Air pollution from ships burning heavy fuel oil near cities is a problem in some places, such as Mersin. Oil production in Russia...
58 KB (4,459 words) - 10:54, 22 August 2024
green-energy hub. It has two Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) storage tanks with a capacity of 50,000 tonnes which can be used as a back-up fuel if required. Three Brown...
9 KB (711 words) - 08:16, 30 July 2024
orimulsion, have been developed as a way to make heavy oil fractions usable as liquid fuels. Many liquid fuels play a primary role in transportation and the...
32 KB (3,503 words) - 00:15, 30 July 2024
index of the ignition quality of residual fuel oil. It is used to determine the suitability of heavy fuel oil for (marine) engines. The effective and efficient...
4 KB (469 words) - 03:40, 11 August 2024
Marine engineering (section Oil and water discharge)
burning of marine fuels releases harmful pollutants into the atmosphere. Ships burn marine diesel in addition to heavy fuel oil. Heavy fuel oil, being the heaviest...
36 KB (4,466 words) - 19:42, 29 August 2024
10% of heat source to light fuel oil and 13% of heat source to heavy fuel oil. The oil sector is managed by the national oil company Société Nationale des...
2 KB (149 words) - 06:04, 4 June 2024
Vasilikos Power Station (category Oil-fired power stations in Cyprus)
capacity of 125 MW and a gas turbine at 35 MW. Steam is produced in heavy fuel oil-fired boilers made by Austrian Energy and Environment. The boilers design...
4 KB (347 words) - 09:21, 25 June 2020