[CPEO-MEF] Assured Fuels

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Arnold AFB supports DoD assured fuels initiative

By Philip Lorenz III, Arnold Engineering Development Center Public Affairs
Black Anthem
August 18, 2006


ARNOLD AIR FORCE BASE, Tenn. — The U.S. Air Force’s Arnold Engineering 
Development Center is taking a leading role in supporting the Department 
of Defense’s Assured Fuels initiative, which aims to steer the military 
away from its reliance on foreign oil.

A team from the center took their technical expertise and specialized 
equipment on the road to assist the Air Force in fielding time-critical 
alternative fuel testing at Tinker Air Force Base, Okla.

"We had been asked to provide exhaust gas analysis for the TF33, the 
engine powering the B-52 Stratofortress," said Paul Jalbert, an 
Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) emissions system engineer at AEDC who 
was among those assisting with the tests at Tinker. "We were asked to 
quantify the exhaust gas emissions from that engine when it was burning 
baseline JP-8 fuel and when it was burning a 50 percent blend of 
synthetic Fischer-Tropsch (FT) fuel and JP-8. We were looking for the 
differences in those emissions from the same engine from two different 
fuels."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.blackanthem.com/News/military200608_304.shtml
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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