Navy Fuel Composition and Screening Tool (FCAST) v2.8

Abstract

The high cost and limited availability of emerging alternative fuels are often major impediments to certification of these fuels as Fit-For- Purpose (FFP) for the U.S. Navy. A method whereby a candidate fuel could be rapidly screened for many FFP properties, using a minimal volume (less than 1 mL), would overcome this limitation. To meet this challenge, algorithmic modeling strategies were derived that establish the statistical relationships between composition and critical FFP fuel properties. This has allowed us to develop partial least squares (PLS) models based on gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) data that predict fuel properties. The Fuel Composition and Screening Tool (FCAST) was developed as a general fuel screening tool that combines GC-MS based property predictions with a compositional profiler to provide a variety of useful information about a fuel sample.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 10, 2016
Accession Number
ADA635080

Entities

People

  • Jeffrey A. Cramer
  • Kevin Johnson
  • Kristina M. Myers
  • Mark H. Hammond
  • Robert E. Morris
  • Thomas N. Loegel

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Compounds
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Chlorides
  • Databases
  • Gas Chromatography
  • Hydrocarbon Fuels
  • Hydrocarbons
  • Information Science
  • Mass Spectra
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • Materials Science
  • Measurement
  • Operating Systems
  • Spectrometry
  • Two Dimensional
  • Xml

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Petroleum Engineering
  • Systems Analysis and Design