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Oldwolf · #61 10-06-2009, 09:52 AM

Please correct me if I am wrong. Is it not true that most of, if not all of, the oil we return to be "recycled" is burned as a fuel oil for heating and manufacturing purposes?

oldsinner111 · #62 10-06-2009, 11:32 AM

Heck,I'm going to use rest of oil to heat with.

Oldwolf · #63 10-06-2009, 11:54 AM

Might as well. I don't think what we return to recycle is cleaned up, refortified and resold for motor oil usage.

#64 10-06-2009, 01:11 PM

As of about ten years ago, I understood that most diesel powered ships burned largely WMO.

mplafleur · #65 10-06-2009, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by LarryBible

As of about ten years ago, I understood that most diesel powered ships burned largely WMO.

Still do, I believe. As well as bunker oil.

Oldwolf · #66 10-06-2009, 01:55 PM

Do they burn fuel oil in boilers or diesel in engines?

#67 10-06-2009, 03:43 PM

As I understood it, they ran it in BIG diesel engines. These engines are so big that there is a catwalk above the crankshaft of the V engine so you can walk along under what would be the valve lifter galley of V8. I expect that the injectors are so huge that a little particulate is not going to matter much.

rrgrassi · #68 10-06-2009, 05:26 PM

The oil burner steam locomotives burn WMO.

Diesel911 · #69 10-06-2009, 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by mplafleur

Still do, I believe. As well as bunker oil.

Waste Motor Oil might be cleaner the Bunker C as far as fuel contaminates go. In Trade School they said they have to heat Bunker C to pass it through the filters and into the fuel Injection System.

Diesel911 · #70 10-06-2009, 08:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Oldwolf

Do they burn fuel oil in boilers or diesel in engines?

More likely in boilers as most big Ships have Steam Turbines. But, in the past Buncker C was burned in huge Diesel Engines. Bunker C is a very unrefined Fuel compared to waste Motor Oil.

mplafleur · #71 10-06-2009, 11:27 PM

I think in most ships like that they have a much smaller diesel engine they use at first just to get the big one going.

roflwaffle · #72 10-07-2009, 03:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Oldwolf

Please correct me if I am wrong. Is it not true that most of, if not all of, the oil we return to be "recycled" is burned as a fuel oil for heating and manufacturing purposes?

Most IIRC. Just like rubber tires can be cut up and used w/ coke for concrete. Course, there's a huge difference between the impact of a ship in the middle of the pacific or a factory in BFE buring WMO and someone using it it populated areas. Unless you don't like your neighbors, then it's perfectly acceptable.

Mark DiSilvestro · #73 10-07-2009, 09:05 AM

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Originally Posted by derburger

BIG GUBMENT!

~fills fuel tank with 5w30 from Hyundai Excels~

~drives 240d to tea party protest, gives kids asthma attacks along the way~ <--- this is you

Most environmentalists claim our old diesels are doing this regardless of whatever fuel we're burning. And it's still technically illegal to burn WVO in road vehicles. So I guess we all better just stop driving our diesels!

Happy Motoring, Mark

bmwpowere36m3 · #74 10-07-2009, 09:30 AM

Yes, but specific boilers or engines used for WMO burn very clean. We use a WMO furnace at our shop to heat the inside, it's a new furnace (not sure the model) but it claims a 99% burn of the fuel. Engines, like diesels, while they can burn WMO... don't do so efficiently and with some side effects.

Efficiency is a non-issue since the fuel is practically "free". Emissions are higher as well , but that's a personal choice as well (How many have removed their EGRs or other emissions devices? Or find ways to cheat emissions testing?). Finally the side effects are the gelling of fuel, water contamination, metal particulate, and coking on injectors/prechambers.

rcounts · #75 10-07-2009, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by pawoSD

So you burn not only motor oil, but mix it with un-taxed (ILLEGAL) off road diesel? You, owe your state and fed's some tax $$! Stop cheating the system and pay for the fuel/taxes like everyone else. Breaking the law is not something to brag about/advertise.

Whoa nellie, down off the high horse there! I said I have burned it - past tense - not that I do burn it - as in regularly.

BUT, if I did, I wouldn't feel guilty about it. My state has one of the highest fuel tax rates in the US and in the last 20 years they have blown BILLIONS of dollars collected as fuel taxes instead of fixing the roads.

Combine that with one of the highest property tax rates in the country and all the Fed taxes I pay, and I pay WAY more than my "fair share"...