Posted on 05/07/2014 9:59:09 AM PDT by thackney
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A general classification for the heavier oils, known as No. 5 and No. 6 fuel oils, that remain after the distillate fuel oils and lighter hydrocarbons are distilled away in refinery operations. It conforms to ASTM Specifications D 396 and D 975and Federal Specification VV-F-815C. No. 5, a residual fuel oil of medium viscosity, is also known as Navy Special and is defined in Military Specification MIL-F-859E, including Amendment 2 (NATO Symbol F-770). It is used in steam-powered vessels in government service and inshore powerplants. No. 6 fuel oil includes Bunker C fuel oil and is used for the production of electric power, space heating, vessel bunkering, and various industrial purposes.
A sample of residual fuel oil
/johnny
Looks like the coffee at a restaurant I used to work at as a teen.....................
It’s the mother’s milk of the refining process.
(and my bread and butter.)
In Australia, they call it Vegemite...
Its the mothers milk of the refining process.
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Also known as “refinery leftovers” and “the bottom of the barrel”.
Lots of BTU’s however in those long-chain hydrocarbons.
Cheers
Negative gravities—some as heavy as -6 API, are becoming commonplace. Some BTU gallons are measured as 165,000 per gallon.
A few yrs. ago I had a client that had a dual fuel boiler. Natural gas and fuel oil.
We ran it on natural gas normally, but he had a buried tank w/ some fuel oil he wanted to burn.
We changed a few settings and fired it up.
Wow, what a difference in output. I’d forgotten how much hotter oil burns v natural gas.
Road tar that they use to mix with stones ? or is that of a heaver grade ?
Your thinking of liquid asphalt.
Much more viscious, and much higher flash.
Was this using the same burner tips for the drastically different fuels?
Who still uses fuel oil to heat their home? Seems it’s only in the Northeast. Funny how the “global warming” idiots in the NE use the most inefficient form of fossil fuel in their decades old heating systems.
Talk about hypocrites. Too cheap to buy a heat pump?
Don’t say that too loud or you’ll have Shuck Chumer and company passing a law to give everybody a free groundwater heat pump system.
Thanks thackney.
I plan to switch to natural gas, now that the choice has become available. Fuel oil heating costs this winter were over $600 a month for four straight months. Electricity costs have been rising steadily over the years, the water heater is a nice big old electric one, dropping that during the winter (and summer, for that matter) will offset the continued cost of running the blower (an unavoidable expense in the winter, regardless of the fuel, unless one lives in a one room cabin with space heater).
Much of New England has sky-high electric rates. And if most switched to electric heat, it would go far higher with rolling blackouts.
Heat pumps become less effective delivering heat when temperatures get colder. They would also required significant resistance-type heaters to keep houses warm.
So they don’t have the ability for the low cost of heating via only a heat pump like Tennessee.
By the way, if you had read more than just the headline, you would find this article was not talking about the light fuel oil used in residential. This is the thick heavy stuff that normally requires heating just to make it flow decently.
/ Envy
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