13 Facts About Jet fuel

Jet fuel or aviation turbine fuel is a type of aviation fuel designed for use in aircraft powered by gas-turbine engines.

Jet fuel is a mixture of a variety of hydrocarbons.

Jet fuel is therefore defined as a performance specification rather than a chemical compound.

Kerosene-type jet fuel has a carbon number distribution between about 8 and 16 ; wide-cut or naphtha-type jet fuel, between about 5 and 15.

Jet A specification fuel has been used in the United States since the 1950s and is usually not available outside the United States and a few Canadian airports such as Toronto and Vancouver, whereas Jet A-1 is the standard specification fuel used in the rest of the world other than Russia and the CIS members where TS-1 is the most common standard.

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Jet B is a naphtha-kerosene fuel that is used for its enhanced cold-weather performance.

TS-1 is a jet fuel made to Russian standard GOST 10227 for enhanced cold-weather performance.

Jet fuel is available in most places in the world, whereas avgas is only widely available in a few countries which have a large number of general aviation aircraft.

Jet fuel is often used in diesel-powered ground-support vehicles at airports.

However, jet fuel tends to have poor lubricating ability in comparison to diesel, which increases wear in fuel injection equipment.

Jet fuel is more expensive than diesel fuel but the logistical advantages of using one fuel can offset the extra expense of its use in certain circumstances.

In 2015 ASTM approved a modification to Specification D1655 Standard Specification for Aviation Turbine Fuels to permit up to 50 ppm of FAME in jet fuel to allow higher cross-contamination from biofuel production.

General health hazards associated with exposure to jet fuel vary according to its components, exposure duration, route of administration, and exposure phase.