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    What is Fuel Oil?

    • Last Update: 2023-03-24
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    Fuel oil is including marine fuel oil, heavy oil or other fuel oil
    .
    Fuel oil is divided into commercial fuel oil and self-use fuel oil
    .
    Commodity fuel oil refers to the fuel oil that enterprises sell as commodities; Self-use fuel oil refers to the self-use oil used by the enterprise as fuel, fertilizer and chemical raw materials
    .

    1.
    Marine fuel oil is composed of atmospheric pressure heavy oil or pressure residue oil after distillation of crude oil and an appropriate amount of secondary processing diesel components in different proportions
    .
    It is mainly used as fuel
    for diesel engines of large low-speed ocean-going ships (with a speed of less than 150 revolutions per minute).
    Including: marine fuel oil, 1000 seconds of marine fuel oil, 1500 seconds of marine fuel oil and No.
    0, No.
    2, No.
    5, No.
    6, No.
    23, other marine fuel oil
    .

    2.
    Heavy oil refers to the combination of the decompression residue oil and the secondary processing component oil after the distillation of the crude oil often decompression device in different proportions
    .
    It is mainly used for various boilers or other industrial furnace fuels, and can also be used for heavy oil hydrogen production, the production of synthetic ammonia and carbon black raw materials
    .
    It is generally divided into the following grades: No.
    10, No.
    20, No.
    60, No.
    100, No.
    200 and other heavy oils
    .


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