• Feedstock
    The biomass used in the creation of a particular biofuel (e.g., corn or sugarcane for ethanol, soybeans or rapeseed for biodiesel).

  • Floater
    An offshore drilling platform without a fixed base.

  • Fluorinated Polyethylene / Polypropylene
    Two types of plastic that have been specially modified to withstand certain chemicals, including biodiesel.

  • Fossil Fuel
    A hydrocarbon deposit, such as petroleum, coal, or natural gas, derived from living matter of a previous geologic time and used for fuel. Production and combustion of fossil fuels dump large amounts of CO? into the air that were not meant to be unearthed, resulting in a non-sustainable formation of the "Greenhouse Effect", which is destructive to all life on earth.

  • FPSO
    F(P)SO: Floating (Production) Storage Offloading Unit. Ship used as substitute for a conventional oil platform at oil fields that are either to deep in the ground or to small to justify the use of a conventional oil platform. If the ship is an FPSO the ship has oil (or gas) processing capabilities.

  • Fuel
    Any material substance that can be consumed to supply heat or power. Included are petroleum, coal, and natural gas (the fossil fuels), and other consumable materials, such as uranium, biomass, and hydrogen.

  • Fuel ethanol (C2H5OH)
    An anhydrous denatured aliphatic alcohol intended for gasoline blending as described in Oxygenates definition.

  • Fuel expenses
    These costs include the fuel used in the production of steam or driving another prime mover for the generation of electricity. Other associated expenses include unloading the shipped fuel and all handling of the fuel up to the point where it enters the first bunker, hopper, bucket, tank, or holder in the boiler-house structure.

  • Fuel injection
    fuel delivery system whereby gasoline is pumped to one or more fuel injectors under high pressure. The fuel injectors are valves that, at the appropriate times, open to allow fuel to be sprayed or atomized into a throttle bore or into the intake manifold ports. The fuel injectors are usually solenoid operated valves under the control of the vehicle's on-board computer (thus the term "electronic fuel injection"). The fuel efficiency of fuel injection systems is less temperature-dependent than carburetor systems. Diesel engines always use injectors.

  • Fuels solvent deasphalting
    A refining process for removing asphalt compounds from petroleum fractions, such as reduced crude oil. The recovered stream from this process is used to produce fuel products.

  • Futures
    The sale and purchase of a commodity at a price, quantity and quality agreed in advance for delivery on a specified future date.