Estimation of Select Specification Tests for Aviation Turbine Fuels Using Fast Gas Chromatography (GC)

The quality of aviation turbine fuels is measured largely by specification tests, which are routinely conducted for every large fuel supply purchased by the United States Air Force. Because military operations insist on more mobility than ever before, fuels are often purchased locally where the military is located. To test the fuels being purchased from unfamiliar sources, the military is examining mobile laboratories. With modern instrumentation such as gas chromatography (GC) with microbore columns and multiple detectors, compositional data can be easily and quickly obtained and related directly to specification test properties. By investigating composition−property relationships, a single GC experiment can be used to estimate several properties. In this work, the development and validation of specification test prediction using compositional data obtained via fast (