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Gold/Mining/Energy : Strictly: Drilling and oil-field services
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To: Second_Titan who wrote (81936)12/17/2000 7:39:52 PM
From: dfloydr  Read Replies (2) of 95453
 
That fuel oil option has either an economic or an environmental price attached. Either you have to use very fine fuel grades or throw in additives to keep the impurities from adhering to the turbine blades. In the first case you pay a premium for fuel: in the second you throw a lot of gunk out the back end into the air. If you do not, the gunk builds up on the blades and you blow up the turbine.

I was once director of a company that used to make the additives used. The stuff we made was used mostly in Brown Bovari turbines on oil pipelines in the Middle East where the fuel used was the crude itself, taken out of the line. Needless to say, these were particularly dirty set ups. But where else do you get power to drive crude through a pipeline when you are miles from any normal power source.
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