Best Practices for Fuel System Contamination Detection and Remediation

Abstract

Fuel contamination is a broad term commonly applied to anything that causes a fuel test to fail quality assurance testing. Also included as contamination is the presence of any polar phase containing evidence of corrosion products or microbial growth. The Department of Defense, Commercial airlines, NATO, ASME and other organizations provide guidance on periodic product sampling and testing to ensure fuel quality. Guidance for contamination identification, however, is quite limited. This study was undertaken to investigate best practices for sampling, analyzing and reporting procedures utilized by fuel system/equipment operators (referred to as field personnel) and laboratory personnel to perform after the presence of fuel contamination is confirmed. The complete listing of Documents examined as part of this study, with a brief description of fuel quality guidance included in each is contained in Attachment 1.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 14, 2015
Accession Number
AD1031879

Entities

People

  • Marlin D. Vangsness

Organizations

  • University of Dayton Research Institute

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airframes
  • Aviation Fuels
  • Chemistry
  • Fluoropolymers
  • Fuel Systems
  • Fuel Tanks
  • Fungi
  • Jet Engine Fuels
  • Laboratory Tests
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Testing
  • Microorganisms
  • Separators
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Electrochemical Engineering/ Fuel Cell Technologies
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Biotechnology
  • Biotechnology - Bioremediation