Jet fuel A1

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Jet fuel A1

A type of aviation fuel called jet fuel or aviation turbine fuel (ATF, often spelled avtur) is intended for use in airplanes with gas-turbine engines. It appears colorless to straw-colored. The fuels Jet A and Jet A-1, which are produced to a defined worldwide specification, are the most frequently used ones in commercial aviation. Other than Jet B, which is used for its improved cold-weather performance, there are no other jet fuels that are frequently used in civilian turbine-engine powered aviation.

Jet fuel is a blend of several hydrocarbons. It is impossible to categorize jet fuel as a ratio of particular hydrocarbons because the precise composition of jet fuel differs significantly depending on the petroleum source. Therefore, rather than being a chemical substance, jet fuel is described as a performance standard. Furthermore, the specifications for the product, such as the freezing point or smoke point, describe the range of molecular mass across hydrocarbons (or different carbon numbers). Wide-cut or naphtha-type jet fuel (including Jet B and JP-4) has a carbon number distribution between about 5 and 15, while kerosene-type jet fuel (including Jet A and Jet A-1, JP-5, and JP-8) has a carbon number distribution between 8 and 16 (carbon atoms per molecule).

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