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Originally Posted by dynalow
Comment from the Oil King?
Do any merchant vessels still burn anything heavier than diesel?
Goods traveling on the ocean will cost more.That's a given. Wonder how this plan will work if the IMO and other nations balk at cooperating.
Ahh, the smell of stack gas in the morning!  |
There are several grades of heavy oil that are more sulfurous than diesel that are burned in power plants ashore so I assume they use similar at sea.
My ship converted from NSFO to JP-5 and it was a mercy. NSFO stunk to high heaven and in order to burn it we had to heat it to 150F (IIRC) to atomize it. Also it's ash content was huge so you were frequently getting complaints from the bridge about smoke. Also firesides cleaning was every 600 steaming hours vs 1800 for JP-5. But it sure had a lot more latent heat. It was probably a third again as energetic as JP-5.
I don't know whether anybody still burns bunker oil. If they do, it's probably some greek-flagged vessels that don't come near the western world. Good question.