Description
D6 Virgin Fuel Oil is also known as Residual Fuel Oil and is of
HighViscosity. This particular Fuel Oil requires preheating to **4
ºC to **7 ºC **0 ºF **0 ºF. The term fuel oil generally includes
any liquid fuel that is burned in a furnace or boiler to generate
heat, or used in an engine to generate power. However, it does not
usually include other liquid oils, such as those with a flash point
of approximately *2 °C **8 °F, or oils burned in cotton- or
woolwick burners. In a stricter sense, fuel oil refers only to the
heaviest commercial fuels that crude oil can yield, that is, those
fuels heavier than gasoline petrol and naphtha. Fuel oil consists
of longchain hydrocarbons, particularly alkanes, cycloalkanes, and
aromatics. Small molecules, such as those in Propane, Naphtha,
gasoline for cars, and jet fuel kerosene, have relatively low
boiling points, and are removed at the start of the fractional
distillation process. Heavier petroleum products like diesel fuel
and lubricating oil are much less volatile and distill out more
slowly, while bunker oil is literally the bottom of the barrel. In
oil distilling, the only components denser than bunker fuel are
carbon black feedstock and bituminous residue asphalt, which is
used for paving roads and sealing roofs. Virgin Fuel Oil D6 is
mostly used for generators. Recent changes in fuel quality
regulation now require further refining of the D6 in order to
remove the sulfur, which leads to a higher cost. Despite this
recent change, D6 is still less useful because of its viscosity as
well as that it needs to be preheated before it can be used and
contains high amounts of pollutants, such as sulfur. Since it
requires preheating, it cannot be used in small ships or boats or
cars. However large ships and power plants can use the residual
fuel oil. Russian virgin fuel oil D6 is a type of residual fuel,
mainly used in power plants and larger ships. It is not possible to
use it in smaller engines or vessels vehicles where it is not
possible to preheat it. D6 is its name in the USA. In other parts
of the world it has other names.
