The only crude oil I've seen was like wheel bearing grease at 60ºf from a RR tanker spill into the Colorado River.
I've read about sea going ships that use #6 fuel oil, it's thick, by preheating the oil via the exhaust stack. It's started on #3 diesel then switched over to #6 when warm.
I would think you'd have the same problems as the guys running SVO as they have to preheat the SVO to keep the wax in suspension so it doesn't gum up the rings and can be pumped.
SVO= straight vegetable oil
I read a report from the IDU where they tried rapeseed oil (SVO) and about 500hrs they plugged injectors and the top ring on IDI engines. There was no mention of preheating the SVO in there tests tho.
There end results recomended no more than a 50% content of SVO of any type for IDI engines. The report was from 1994 or there abouts so no DI engines were tested.
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