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Because of the low quality of bunker fuel, when burnt it is especially harmful to the health of humans, causing serious illnesses and deaths. Prior to the IMO's 2020 sulfur cap, shipping industry air pollution was estimated to cause around 400,000 premature deaths each year, from lung cancer and cardiovascular disease, as well as 14 million childhood asthma cases each year.
Diesel fuel has many colloquial names; most commonly, it is simply referred to as diesel.In the United Kingdom, diesel fuel for road use is commonly called diesel or sometimes white diesel if required to differentiate it from a reduced-tax agricultural-only product containing an identifying coloured dye known as red diesel.
Natural oil spring in Korňa, Slovakia.. Petroleum is a naturally occurring liquid found in rock formations. It consists of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights, plus other organic compounds.
Wood as fuel for combustion. The first known use of fuel was the combustion of firewood by Homo erectus nearly two million years ago. [citation needed] Throughout most of human history only fuels derived from plants or animal fat were used by humans.
Anacortes Refinery, on the north end of March Point southeast of Anacortes, Washington, United States Grangemouth Refinery, in Scotland Jamnagar Refinery, the world's largest oil refinery, in Gujarat, India
Petroleum [a] is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture. It consists mainly of hydrocarbons, [1] and is found in geological formations.The term petroleum refers both to naturally occurring unprocessed crude oil, as well as to petroleum products that consist of refined crude oil.
There is a range of meanings for the terms 'synthetic fuel' or 'synfuel'. The most traditional view restricts the input material (feedstock) to coal (commonly via syngas) and the output to liquid hydrocarbons.
An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is composed primarily of hydrocarbons and is hydrophobic (does not mix with water) and lipophilic (mixes with other oils). Oils are usually flammable and surface active.