Gas Turbine Liquid Fuel
Caterpillar Corporation Fuel Specifications

Test Description

Method

Required Tests:

Cetane Number, Ignition Quality of Diesel Fuels

ASTM D 613

Water and Sediment in Fuel Oils, BS&W

ASTM D 1796

Pour Point of Petroleum Oils

ASTM D 97

Cloud Point of Petroleum Products (Linear Cooling Rate Method)

ASTM D 5772

Sulfur, Bomb Method. LOD = 0.1 wt%

ASTM D 129

Viscosity, Kinematic, at 100°C, cSt

ASTM D 445.b

API Gravity, Hydrometer Method

ASTM D 287.a

Determination of C2 through C5 Hydrocarbons by GC (Fractionation)

ASTM D 2427

Carbon Residue, Ramsbottom on 10% Residue

ASTM D 524.b

Distillation of Petroleum Products at Atmospheric Pressure

ASTM D 86.b

Vapor Pressure of Petroleum Products, Reid Method

ASTM D 323

Salt Content of Crude Oil, Electrometric Method

ASTM D 3230

Gum Content, Existent, in Fuels by Air Jet Evaporation

ASTM D 381.a

Corrosion from Petroleum Products, Copper Strip Tarnish Test

ASTM D 130

Flash Point, Pensky-Martens Closed Cup

ASTM D 93

Ash Content of Petroleum Products

ASTM D 482

Hydrocarbon Types in Liquid Petroleum by Fluorescent Indicator Absorption (FIA)

ASTM D 1319

Trace Metals in Gas Turbine Fuels by Flame Atomic Absorption and Flame Emission Spectroscopy. Includes: Vanadium, Sodium, Nickel, aluminum, Silicon

ASTM D 3605.b