Description

is a heavy, low quality fuel oil, used in generating plants and similar applications. In the United States and Western Europe, mazut is blended or broken down, with the end product being diesel.
 
azut may be used for heating houses in the former USSR and in countries of the Far East that do not have the facilities to blend or break it down into more conventional petro-chemicals. In the West, furnaces that burn mazut are commonly called "waste oil" heaters or "waste oil" furnaces.
 
azut-**0 is a fuel oil that is manufactured to GOST specifications, for example GOST *******5 (not active), GOST *******9 Oil fuel. Mazut. Specifications (active, last modified *7.*1.***0) . (GOST is the Russian system of standards, much like ASTM, for example). Mazut is almost exclusively manufactured in the Russian Federation, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan,
gading this fuel is the sulfur content, which can mostly be affected by the source feedstock. For shipment purposes, this product is considered a dirty oil product, and because viscosity drastically affect whether it is able to be pumped, shipping has unique requirements. Mazut is much like Number 6 Oil, and is part of the products left over after gasoline and lighter components are evaporated from the crude oil.
 
Very Low Sulphur is mazut with a sulphur content of 0.5%
·         oSulphur is a mazut with a sulphur content of 0.5-1.0%
·         High Sulphur is a mazut with a sulphur content of 2.**3.5%
ey ow Sulfur mazut is generally made from the lowest sulfur crude feedstocks. It has a very limited volume to be exported because:The number of producers in Russia are limited. Refineries which produce this are generally the largest of oil companies, such
LAzerbaijan, Turkmenistan). The technical specifications are represented in the same way, according to the Russian GOST standard *****-99. The Russian origin mazut demands higher prices.