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Originally Posted by ikalugin
You mean the black smoke?
It was the result of the boilers working in a non optimal mode. The current boilers on Kuznetsov use a hydrolic automatic control system, but that system is dead, so they are manually switched into a small number of narrow performance modes.
For obvious reasons those are optimised for the full power burns, meaning that at lower power settings the boilers loose efficiency and you get a lot of smoke.
(plus we use fuel oil aka mazut vs diesel)
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Is a power supply upgrade (or at least full overhaul) planned for the refit?