Engineering Fundamentals: An Introduction to Engineering, 4th ed.c

Heating Oil

Heating oil is a petroleum product used to heat homes in America, especially in the Northeast. At

refineries, crude oil is refined into lubricating oil and different types of fuels including gasoline, diesel,

jet fuel / kerosene, and heating oil. Heating oil and diesel fuel are similar in composition; the main

difference between the two fuels is sulfur content. Heating oil has more sulfur than diesel fuel. In

addition, because heating oil is tax-exempt and cannot be legally used to fuel cars and trucks on

highways, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service requires heating oil to be dyed red. The red color makes

it clear that the product is tax-exempt and cannot legally be used as highway diesel.

Nuclear Energy

There are two processes by which nuclear energy is harnessed, nuclear fission and nuclear fusion.

Nuclear power plants use nuclear fission to produce electricity. In nuclear fission, in order to

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Source:Energy Information Administration

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