Residual fuel oil

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
RFO
Pronunciation
/rɪˈzɪʤuəl fjuəl ɔɪl/
Category
Miscellaneous
Related Field
Unclassified

Examples in Context

  1. The persistent heat nurtured buoyant demand for residual fuel oil and direct crude burning for power generation, as electricity consumption soared to meet air conditioning demand in the region.
  2. Based on the consideration of energy saving and environment protection, this paper introduces a kind of boiler reclaiming residual heat of fuel gas and organic carrier oil as well as strength calculation of the boiler.
  3. The effective approach to utilize residual oil is to convert the heavy oil into lighter fuel oil and chemical materials.
  4. By analysing the distillates'and chemical components of hydrogenated residual oil ( HRO ), it is sure that the products such as jet fuel, light diesel oil, light lube oil, wax and white oil can be produced from HRO.
  5. It's necessary to increase ratio of residual oil in mixed fuel by fuel water emulsification technology so as to improve quality of emulsified fuel with high content of residual oil and the boiler's operation conditions as well.

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