New Petroleum Standard Aims to Provide Higher Quality Aviation Fuel

摘要

A new ASTM International standard aims to provide jet fuel refiners with a new way to evaluate fuel, ultimately supporting higher product quality and performance for plane engines. According to ASTM International member Jody Clark, the new standard measures the total aromatic and polynuclear aromatic content in aviation and kerosene range fuels by supercritical fluid chromatography using a flame ionization detector (FID). The standard, soon to be published as D8305, was developed by members of ASTM International's petroleum products, liquid fuels, and lubricants committee (D02).