No. 6 fuel oil (bunker c)

[angus63]

Does anyone know a vendor where I could purchase one gallon of bunker c for an experiment? I can only find large qty vendors. Thanks!

 

[rbh]

Re: No. 6 fuel oil (bunker c)

Have you called around to any bulk fuel places and asked for FFO (furnace fuel oil) some places that still have boiler system in the basement still use it.

FFO can be either #5 or #6 fuel oil.

 

[Woodnaut]

Re: No. 6 fuel oil (bunker c)

Bunker C. I haven't heard that since I was drinking coffee in the engine room next to the LP turbine. Imagine that - Snipes! Right here on iboats!

 

[j_martin]

Re: No. 6 fuel oil (bunker c)

Last time I encountered anything like that we were highlining navy special, which I think is bunker c with a load of graphite in it, and the durned hose broke. What a mess. That stuffs like rotten molasses.

 

[Fishing Dude too]

Re: No. 6 fuel oil (bunker c)

If I remember right (as I was a FT) bunker c is barely better than crude.

 

[Tim Frank]

Re: No. 6 fuel oil (bunker c)

You will have to find it locally, it can't be shipped by carriers.

So how does it get to be a local source? :facepalm:

 

[j_martin]

Re: No. 6 fuel oil (bunker c)

So how does it get to be a local source? :facepalm:

It goes by hazmat tanker, not by UPS.

 

[Summer Fun]

Re: No. 6 fuel oil (bunker c)

Go to a asphalt plant they still use it.

 

[stackz]

Re: No. 6 fuel oil (bunker c)

I'm just curious what kind of experiment he's going to try with this stuff?

going to slather a stump with it and see if you can slow burn it or something? lol.

 

[angus63]

Re: No. 6 fuel oil (bunker c)

I'm just curious what kind of experiment he's going to try with this stuff?

going to slather a stump with it and see if you can slow burn it or something? lol.

Thank you all for the responses! I found a local supplier who pointed me to some of his local customers so I can beg for some.

I am an instructor at The US Merchant Marine Academy and I have two purposes for the material this coming academic year. One is part of an environmental study as to what happens to minimally refined oil left untreated on a saltwater sediment bed. The other is to use it for a baseline for studying the caloric values for various types of fuel burned in internal combustion engines (using biofuels and hybrid fuels) and the properties of the exhaust gases under varying load conditions.

Whatever's left I'm gonna fire up to cook blackened marshmallows on a slow burning stump!

Back in the early 80's I was on a fleet oiler doing underway replenishment in the Ike task force. I passed millions of gallons of this sludge to vessels but can't find a gallon or so when I need it!!