The Use of Instrumental Methods to Identify Liquid Fuels Applied in the Polish Armed Forces

The publication topic is to present the research results on the identification methodology of liquid fuels used in the Polish Armed Forces and beyond them. The part related to the use of non-standard instrumental methods to recognise the differences between various types of products was presented. The results of testing the samples of diesel fuels and fuels for aircraft turbine engines both from the civil market and from the stock of the armed forces were described. The usefulness of chromatography, infrared (IR) spectrometry and UV-VIS spectroscopy as instruments being an element of the procedure of the fuel type and origin identification was presented.