Mazut is a residual fuel oil often derived from Russian petroleum sources and is either blended with lighter petroleum fractions or burned directly in specialized boilers and furnaces.
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Bright Eagle Enterprise is also collaborating for conversion of KE s 1, 260 MW Bin Qasim Power Plant-I from residual fuel oil to coal under a Joint Development Agreement.
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The chief drawback to residual fuel oil is its high initial viscosity, particularly in the case of No . 6 oil, which requires a correctly engineered system for storage, pumping, and burning.
In 1973, residual fuel oil produced 16.8 % of the electricity in the US . By 1983, it had fallen to 6.2 %, and, electricity production from all forms of petroleum, including diesel and residual fuel, is only 3 % of total production.
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The plans, which anticipated operations to begin in the early 1990s, included well development in the S�digi field, a pipeline to N'Djamena, a refinery with a 2, 000-to capacity, and the transformation or acquisition of power-generating equipment in the capital to burn the refinery's residual fuel oil.
The remainder, in gallons : distillate fuel oil, including home heating oil and diesel fuel, 9.2; kerosene-type jet fuel, 4.1; residual fuel oil ( heavy oils used as fuels in industry, marine transportation and for electric power generation ), 2.3; liquefied refinery gases, 1.9; still gas, 1.9; petroleum coke, 1.8; asphalt and road oils, 1.3; petrochemical feedstocks, 1.2; and lubricants, kerosene and " other, " 1 gallon.
