Fuel Oil Description :
Fuel oil is a fraction obtained from petroleum distillation, either as a distillate or a residue at the oil refinery.
Broadly speaking, fuel oil is any liquid petroleum product that is burned in a furnace or boiler for the generation
of heat or used in an engine for the generation of power, except oils having a flash point of approximately +40 °C
and oils burned in cotton or wool-wick burners. In this sense, diesel is a type of fuel oil. Fuel oil is made of long
hydrocarbon chains, particularly alkanes, cycloalkanes and aromatics.
