Talk:Heavy fuel oil

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Why is there no reported health impacts section to this wiki? There are many published studies around the health effects on humans, I am surprised there isn’t a section visible. Could someone with the knowledge of how to edit this properly add the appropriate section please?

BranteFarrell (talk) 19:11, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

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IMO low sulphur regulations
https://www.imo.org/en/MediaCentre/PressBriefings/pages/02-IMO-2020.aspx

this site seems to indicate that most shipping vessels switched to very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO) and marine gas oil (MGO) during a 2020 transition phase 107.147.224.208 (talk) 18:22, 2 August 2023 (UTC)

Year of initial use in shipping industry: 20th century rather than 19th?

 * Since the middle of the 19th century, HFO has been used primarily by the shipping industry

Since the first diesel engine prototype wasn't built until 1893 I wonder what the shipping industry would have used heavy fuel oil for before that? Surely it must be "since the middle of the 20th century" that was implied? A common mistake for people accustomed to other ways of naming centuries where one usually call it something like "1900-talet" as in Swedish. Algotr (talk) 12:12, 16 January 2024 (UTC)

Changed it to 20th century with two sources. Algotr (talk) 12:59, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Heavy fuel oil isn't exactly a suitable fuel for diesel engines - the viscosity would prevent atomisation as it leaves the injector nozzle, that's if it hadn't already clogged the injector body. With appropriate fittings, the boilers of steamships could use oil fuel as an alternative to coal - one clue is in the term bunker fuel, since the bunker is where coal is stored. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 16:14, 16 January 2024 (UTC)