| abstract |
A turbine fuel is provided that is suitable for large-scale land-based turbines used by facilities to produce electricity and desalinated water, and for large mobile engines and turbines in marine and remote applications where only liquid fuels are available. The use results in less corrosion, ash formation and emissions (NOx, SOx, CO2 and harmful metals) than heavy crude contaminated with fire, refinery residual oil or high sulfur fuel oil. Manufacturing is through the decontamination of crude oils, unconventional crude oils and other highly contaminated liquids such as refinery residual oil and high sulfur fuel oil. Each fuel is produced as an individual product of unit operations, not by mixing plants of various refinery products, still using an apparatus configuration less complex than conventional crude oil refining. These fuels can be fired by advanced high efficiency turbine systems of combined cycle power plants that have hot flow paths and heat recovery steam generating systems susceptible to corrosion, whose systems cannot otherwise treat raw heavy contaminated or refinery residual oil. |