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  2. Fuel oil - Wikipedia

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    No. 5 fuel oil is also called Navy Special Fuel Oil (NSFO) or just navy special; No. 5 or 6 are also commonly called heavy fuel oil (HFO) or furnace fuel oil (FFO); the high viscosity requires heating, usually by a recirculated low pressure steam system, before the oil can be pumped from a bunker tank. Bunkers are rarely labeled this way in ...

  3. Central oil storage - Wikipedia

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    The book Introduction to Architectural Science states about liquid fuel storage tanks, "often in a housing development a central storage tank is installed (usually underground) which will be filled by an oil company", and that a supply of liquid fuel is piped to individual apartments or houses from the central storage tank. [2]

  4. List of United States Navy oilers - Wikipedia

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    The Navy's first fuel ships designed and built as oilers, rather than colliers, the Kanawha-class comprised two ships commissioned just before World War I, which displaced 5,950/14,800 tons. Until 1920 they were designated "Fuel Ship No. 13" etc. Maumee was the first large US Navy vessel with

  5. Oil tanker - Wikipedia

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    An oil tanker's inert gas system is one of the most important parts of its design. [91] Fuel oil itself is very difficult to ignite, but its hydrocarbon vapors are explosive when mixed with air in certain concentrations. [92] The purpose of the system is to create an atmosphere inside tanks in which the hydrocarbon oil vapors cannot burn. [91]

  6. Oil terminal - Wikipedia

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    An oil terminal (also called a tank farm, tankfarm, oil installation or oil depot) is an industrial facility for the storage of oil, petroleum and petrochemical products, and from which these products are transported to end users or other storage facilities. [1]

  7. Oil refinery - Wikipedia

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    An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refined into products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, asphalt base, fuel oils, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum naphtha.

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