Airlines for America (A4A), the industry trade organization for the leading U.S. airlines, applauded the addition of a seventh annex to ASTM International’s sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) specification, ASTM D7566, which will further enable the use of SAF by the U.S. airlines. Airlines for America (A4A) members include Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Atlas Air, Delta […]

ASTM International’s petroleum products, liquid fuels, and lubricants committee (D02) has honored Fred Barnes, aviation fuels consultant with the Lowrie B. Sargent Jr. Award.  The Lowrie B. Sargent Jr. Award is an award presented at the discretion of ASTM Committee D02 on Petroleum Products and Lubricants to a member, or former member, who has exhibited […]

ASTM International has approved and published a sixth pathway for the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The latest annex to ASTM D7566, Standard Specification for Aviation Turbine Fuel Containing Synthesized Hydrocarbons, establishes criteria for the production and use of catalytic hydrothermolysis jet fuel (CHJ), a type of synthetic kerosene. The standard provides that CHJ […]

A new ASTM International standard aims to provide jet fuel refiners with a new way to evaluate fuel, ultimately supporting higher product quality and performance for plane engines. According to ASTM International member Jody Clark, the new standard measures the total aromatic and polynuclear aromatic content in aviation and kerosene range fuels by supercritical fluid […]

Honeywell UOP has resumed production of fluorescent indicator dyed gel, a reagent used to certify the composition of saturates, olefins and aromatics in fuels. New supplies of the reagent now are commercially available. The reagent is used in the ASTM 1319 standardized testing method used by fuel producers worldwide to meet the U.S Environmental Protection […]

ASTM International launched its first-ever chapter in the United Arab Emirates this week, with more than 100 leaders from industry, government, and academia attending the launch celebration. Rashid bin Fahad, Ph.D., who is serving as the chapter’s first president, said, “This is an exciting development in the cooperation between the United Arab Emirates and ASTM […]

ASTM International, one of the world’s largest standards development organizations based in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., announced that it would launch its first-ever international chapter later this year. The chapter will be based in the United Arab Emirates. “ASTM International standards are already being used in the Gulf, and the planned chapter is a natural […]

A new ASTM International standard will help to make portable fuel containers safer. The new standard (soon to be published as F3326) was developed by ASTM’s committee on consumer products (F15). “This new standard requires the addition of a flame mitigation device in consumer portable fuel containers (PFC),” says ASTM International member Philip Monckton, Scepter […]

ASTM International’s commercial spaceflight committee (F47), launched in 2016, has approved its first technical standard. The new guide (F3344) covers fundamental safeguards for storing, using, and handling liquid rocket propellants. The document was developed by the subcommittee on spaceports. “Our committee has been working diligently to develop industry consensus standards for commercial spaceflight. We are […]

Taco van der Maten, marketing manager for Malvern Panalytical, in Almelo, The Netherlands, has started his term as 2019 chairman of the ASTM International board of directors. ASTM International’s board is made of 25 leaders from a variety of companies, associations, universities, government bodies, and other organizations around the world. For example, its incoming cohort of board members represents Knauf Middle […]