Without adequate supplies of refined residual fuel oil for the Battle of the Philippine Sea, Japanese aircraft carriers refueled with unrefined Tarakan crude oil in June 1944.
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The explosion of a Thai Airways International Boeing 737 in 2001 and a Philippine Airlines 737 in 1990 also occurred in a tank that had residual fuel.
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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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Residual fuel inventories, which include heating oil, gained 868, 000 barrels to 37 . 8 million barrels, compared with 39 . 9 million barrels last year, API reported.
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While the fire's cause was not immediately determined, airline officials said it appeared to be a flareup of residual fuel in the engine's exhaust, similar to a car backfiring.
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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.
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Stage separation occurred as planned, but because residual fuel in the new Merlin 1C engine evaporated and provided transient thrust, the first stage recontacted the second stage, preventing successful completion of the mission.
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As part of a longer-term effort to make the business more attractive, Salomon launched a capital investment plan, including the development of a refinery to make more profitable refined products from residual fuel.
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A small amount of fuel in a tank is more dangerous than a large amount, since heat entering the fuel tank with residual fuel causes the fuel to increase in temperature faster and evaporate.
