But hey if you want 20,000 free gallons of #6, sounds like you can have it in northern Michigan somewhere.
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Anonymous-0
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It's called bunker fuel if you've been around cruise ships, or even freight ships.
John (C-IL)
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When I worked for an AMOCO jobber we called it bunker fuel. It was some pretty nasty stuff to handle and required some special equipment to use it. We sold it to some big factories that would use a couple semi loads a week.
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Unfortunately, I DO know what it is.
We burn about 6,000 gallons a week in our boilers at work. Thick, gooey stuff. Comes in in heated tankers so they can pump it, we have to heat it to around 200 degrees to even burn it. It's pre-heated to around 170 in the tank by a steam loop from the boilers, and then to 200-215 by electric preheaters just before the burners on the boilers.
When the power goes out and we lose steam, we start praying. Had a 24 hour outage a couple of years ago in the first week of April and it was low 30's outside, colder at night.
We were 4 days with weed burners getting the oil thinned out enough to get the boilers started again.
We burn about 6,000 gallons a week in our boilers at work. Thick, gooey stuff. Comes in in heated tankers so they can pump it, we have to heat it to around 200 degrees to even burn it. It's pre-heated to around 170 in the tank by a steam loop from the boilers, and then to 200-215 by electric preheaters just before the burners on the boilers.
When the power goes out and we lose steam, we start praying. Had a 24 hour outage a couple of years ago in the first week of April and it was low 30's outside, colder at night.
We were 4 days with weed burners getting the oil thinned out enough to get the boilers started again.
buicanddeere
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Bunker C. It's a 72 chain hydrocarbon also used as a primary ingredient in tar and asphalt.Usually high in sulphur too.
It's the left over goop from the bottom of the primary distillation tower from light crude. It's also pretty close to what British North Sea Oil or Alberta Tar Sands base crude.
It takes a lot of energy to break the stuff down into gasoline, kerosene and diesel.
It's the left over goop from the bottom of the primary distillation tower from light crude. It's also pretty close to what British North Sea Oil or Alberta Tar Sands base crude.
It takes a lot of energy to break the stuff down into gasoline, kerosene and diesel.
Anonymous-0
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This is probably already a sore subject, but why no backup generator to keep things like the preheaters going?
The price of asphalt has gone through the roof, at least around here. Seems like it should be worth something to an asphalt paving company. Although it probably has to be "certified" 7 ways from Sunday before you could use it, and if uncertified, it's probably classified as hazardous waste.
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