Stove oil

Domestic fuel oils are those used primarily in the home and include kerosene, stove oil, and furnace fuel oil. Diesel fuel oils are also distillate fuel oils, but residual oils have been successhjlly used to power marine diesel engines, and mixtures of distillates and residuals have been used on locomotive diesels. Heavy fuel oils include a variety of oils, ranging from distillates to residual oils, that must be heated to 260°C or higher before they can be used. In general, heavy fuel oil consists of residual oil blended with distillate to suit specific needs. Heavy fuel oil includes various industrial oils and, when used to fuel ships, is called bunker oil. 

Kerosene is heavier than gasoline and lighter than gas oil. The lighter portion of kerosene is most suitable as an illuminant for lamps. The heavier portions of kerosene traditionally have been used as stove oil. Since the 1950s, kerosene has been used as a major component in jet fuel. 

In 1936 Sinox, a dinitro selective weed killer, was introduced and widely used, not only in cereal crops but in peas, onions, flax, and other important crops. In the early forties a private dealer in the Salinas Valley of California discovered the selective herbicidal use of stove oil in carrot crops. As war conditions made labor scarce and military demands called for increased production, this proved a great boon to the vegetable growers. 

But stove oil, if not carefully used, left an oily flavor in carrots. Synthetic rubber reduced the need for guayule. Fuel oil prices had advanced to a level that almost prohibited their use for weed control. The future of oil in the herbicide field was in doubt. Yet farmers needed oil sprays for their irrigation systems, which were infesting their fields with weeds, and for their fence lines, which were harboring thrips and other insects and diseases. These problems of research were undertaken by the agricultural experiment stations in California, Massachusetts, New York, and other states. 

The findings of Crafts and Reiber (4) were somewhat inconsistent with the above conclusions. After sulfonation, gasoline and the low-boiling fraction of stove oil were still toxic to broad-leaved weeds and grasses. The unsulfonatable residue of the heavier fraction of stove oil, boiling between 424 and 570 F., was not toxic. 

Petroleum products such as stove oil were used as selective herbicides in fields of guayule—a rubber-bearing shrub—grown experimentally in California and the Southwest during World War II. Mineral spirits are used rather extensively for weed control in cranberry bogs in the lake states and in the Northwest. 

In 1947, a weed kill of 91.2 and 90.8% was obtained in preliminary trials 11) with Stoddard solvent and Sovasol No. 5, applied at 70 to 80 gallons per acre in Hugo Sauer Nursery in northern Wisconsin, In this same series of tests, ordinary stove oil of higher boiling point than cleaning naphthas gave comparatively poor control of weeds. 

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Kerosene is the lightest straight fuel oil in the distillate category and has uses, which range from lamp oils, to light stove oils, and diesel fuels for use in Arctic service. Pour points of below —50°C are the attraction of kerosene for low temperature diesel fuel applications. A small addition of lubricating oil stocks is made to diesel fuel in this service. 

For a moment, let us explore the historical development of light ends recovery plants within the context of the total refinery. In the early days of the industry, kerosene, stove oil and lubricants were the principal products. With... 

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