The Development of Advanced Sensor Technologies to Measure Critical Navy Mobility Fuel Properties

Abstract

Laboratory studies have been conducted at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to develop chemometric methodologies and assess measurement technologies that will enable the implementation of sensor-based instrumentation capable of measuring critical Navy mobility fuel properties. These chemometric techniques were then used to evaluate several chromatographic and spectroscopic methods for their efficacy in modeling critical fuel properties. The preliminary findings from a training set consisting of 46 jet fuels from around the world, indicated that while capillary gas chromatography (GC) offered some advantages for certain properties, both near-IR (NIR) and Raman spectroscopy showed promise as suitable methods for a sensor-based analytical system. In many cases, the errors of prediction from partial least squares (PLS) regressions of the spectroscopic data were within the published errors of the standard ASTM test methods currently employed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 27, 2006
Accession Number
ADA444116

Entities

People

  • Kevin Johnson
  • Mark H. Hammond
  • Robert E. Morris
  • Susan L. Rose-Pehrsson

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Chemical Analysis
  • Chemistry
  • Data Mining
  • Detectors
  • Factor Analysis
  • Information Science
  • Jet Engine Fuels
  • Liquid Chromatography
  • Mass Spectra
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Spectra
  • Spectrometry
  • Spectroscopy
  • Test Methods
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Spectroscopy.
  • Systems Analysis and Design