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  2. Fuel oil - Wikipedia

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    Fuel oils include heavy fuel oil (bunker fuel), marine fuel oil (MFO), furnace oil (FO), gas oil (gasoil), heating oils (such as home heating oil), diesel fuel, and others. The term fuel oil generally includes any liquid fuel that is burned in a furnace or boiler to generate heat ( heating oils ), or used in an engine to generate power (as ...

  3. Motor oil - Wikipedia

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    An oil pump, a vane or gear pump powered by the engine, pumps the oil throughout the engine, including the oil filter. Oil filters can be a full flow or bypass type. In the crankcase of a vehicle engine, motor oil lubricates rotating or sliding surfaces between the crankshaft journal bearings (main bearings and big-end bearings) and rods ...

  4. Motor fuel - Wikipedia

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    A motor fuel is a fuel that is used to provide power to the engine of motor vehicles — typically a heat engine that produces thermal energy via oxidative combustion of liquid or gaseous fuel and then converts the heat into mechanical energy through reciprocating pistons or gas turbines.

  5. Lubricant - Wikipedia

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    Motor oil – Lubricant used for lubrication of internal combustion engines; Oil analysis – Laboratory analysis of an oil based lubricant's properties and contaminants; Penetrating oil – Low-viscosity oil; Tribology – Science and engineering of interacting surfaces in relative motion

  6. Diesel fuel - Wikipedia

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    Diesel fuel, also called diesel oil, heavy oil (historically) or simply diesel, is any liquid fuel specifically designed for use in a diesel engine, a type of internal combustion engine in which fuel ignition takes place without a spark as a result of compression of the inlet air and then injection of fuel. Therefore, diesel fuel needs good ...

  7. Oil - Wikipedia

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    In order to obtain many fuel oils, crude oil is pumped from the ground and is shipped via oil tanker or a pipeline to an oil refinery. There, it is converted from crude oil to diesel fuel (petrodiesel), ethane (and other short-chain alkanes ), fuel oils (heaviest of commercial fuels, used in ships/furnaces), gasoline (petrol), jet fuel ...

  8. Heavy fuel oil - Wikipedia

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    Heavy fuel oil (HFO) is a category of fuel oils of a tar-like consistency. Also known as bunker fuel , or residual fuel oil , HFO is the result or remnant from the distillation and cracking process of petroleum .

  9. Lubricity - Wikipedia

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    In a modern diesel engine, the fuel is part of the engine lubrication process. Diesel fuel naturally contains compounds that provide lubricity, but because of regulations in many countries (such as the US and the EU countries), sulphur must be removed from the fuel before it can be sold. The hydrotreatment of diesel fuel to remove sulphur also ...