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residual fuel oil

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residual fuel oil [rə′zij·ə·wəl ′fyül ‚ȯil]
(materials)
Topped crude petroleum or viscous residuums from refinery operations; commercial grades of burner oils Nos. 5 and 6 are residual oils, and include the bunker fuels.


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Residual fuel oil cracks will likely weaken somewhat, resulting in slightly wider spreads between light and heavy products at refineries around the world.
This leads to the forecast of price differences between low and high sulphur residual fuel oils.
Petroleum-fired power stations do not, as the name suggests, run on the expensive fuel that you might put in your automobile, but rather on a by product of the refining of crude oil called residual fuel oil, which is cheap, but very, very dirty.
 
 
 
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