Mobility Fuels (ADV)
Abstract
This project represents the Navy's only RDTE investment designed to maintain its capability to operate as a "smart" customer for aviation and ship tactical fuels that are an operationally critical, single point of failure, $4.0 billion per year consumable requiring worldwide availability and interoperability. Recent field problems have demonstrated the adverse effects that fuel-related problems can have on ship and aircraft performance, durability, and readiness. The potential risk and adverse operational impacts of fuel-related problems over the next decade, given the evolving production technologies, changing feedstocks, more stringent environmental regulations and the introduction of new operational requirements and platforms will continue to increase. This project provides data through laboratory, component, engine, fuel system, and platform tests, which relate the effects of changes in the Navy fuel properties and chemistry to the performance and durability of Naval ship, aircraft, ground and fuel distribution systems. The information is required to: (a) assure interoperability with fuel procured from commercial/ international specifications, (b) determine the extent to which unnecessarily restrictive military specification requirements can be relaxed to reduce cost and increase availability worldwide, (c) provide guidance to fleet operators for the safe use of off-specification fuels or emerging CONOPS requiring the use of non-traditional fuels,(d) assure operational interoperability with evolving changes in fuel production technology, feedstocks, environmental regulations and tactical system demands, (e) improve the capability and reduce the cost of field fuel quality surveillance and (f) facilitate rapid identification and resolution of field identified fuel deficiencies.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- 0838_0603724N_4_1319_PB_2020
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