Mobility Fuels (ADV)
Abstract
This project provides data through laboratory, component, engine, fuel system, and weapon system tests, which relate the effects of changes in the Navy fuel procurement specification properties and chemistries to the performance and reliability of Naval ship, aircraft, and fuel distribution systems. The information is required to: (a) ensure interoperability with commercial specifications, (b) determine the extent to which unnecessarily restrictive specification features can be relaxed to reduce cost and increase availability worldwide, (c) provide guidance to fleet operators for the safe use of off-specification or commercial grade fuels when military specifications are unavailable or in short supply, (d) technically justify changes to fuel specifications to ensure fuel quality and avoid fleet operating problems while accommodating evolutionary changes in fuel supply, and (e) improve capability to provide fuel quality surveillance in the field. Continued volatility and rapid escalation of the cost of fuel have placed additional pressures on Navy budgets responsible for maintaining and sustaining the Navy tactical fleet both now and in the future. These pressures have placed an added emphasis on the potential use of lower cost commercial fuels and/or fuels derived from non-petroleum sources as a potential means of stabilizing the current and anticipated price volatility. Recent problems with petroleum-based fuel quality have demonstrated the adverse effects that fuel-related problems can have on ship and aircraft system performance, reliability, and readiness. The program addresses readiness, additional maintenance costs, and the cost of lost equipment. The potential risk of fuel-related problems over the next decade, given the unknown supply, feedstocks, and the introduction of new theaters of operation, will continue to increase. This project represents the Navy's only investment designed to maintain its capability to operate as a "smart" customer for fuels that cost over $4.0 billion per year for procurement, transport, storage, and consumption, and are essential to fleet operations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- 0838_0603724N_4_1319_PB_2018
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