Marine Fuels: Specifications, Testing, Purchase, and Use
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About the Course
This class explains how the properties of marine fuels affect fuel handling, combustion, and cost. It provides a detailed understanding of fuel quality requirements, and why they are necessary for good handling and combustion performance. Class interaction will be emphasized through practical examples that apply the course material to past and current problems.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Recall the history of marine fuel
- Describe how properties of marine fuels affect fuel handling, combustion and cost
- Describe the sampling process
- Take precautions to decreate fuel contamination.
Who Should Attend
Supervisors and managers in laboratory operations, purchasing, fuel supply and handling, and quality control. Also, for shipping company employees and those involved in the sale, purchase, trade, or use of marine fuels, who need a detailed understanding of fuel quality requirements and why they are necessary for proper handling and combustion performance.
(Not intended as a training course for lab technicians or those who run the tests, because it does not address the detailed conduct of the various test methods.)
Course Outline
Class: 8:00 AM-4:30 PM daily
Day 1
- Brief History of Marine Fuel >li>Marine Fuel Specifications
- Chemistry Primer
- Crude Quality/Characteristics
- Refining (Fuels Manufacture)
- Refining (Blending Practices)
Day 2
- Quality Parameters, Significance and Testing
- Sampling
- Current Marine Fuel Quality
- IMO Environmental Issues/Low Sulphur/ECA/GHG - Marpol Annex VI
- Diesel Engines
- Ignition Quality
Day 3
- Fuel Purchasing
- Fuel Pre-treatment (Centrifuging)
- Fuel Handling and Delivery
- Fuel Contamination
- Resolution of Conflicts
Fee Includes
Fee Includes
- Course workbook and all referenced standards
- Certificate of Attendance and 2.1 Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
About ASTM and Sponsoring Committee
Organized in 1898, ASTM is one of the world's largest voluntary standards development organizations. ASTM standards have grown to be among the world's most widely used and accepted documents. The 82-volume Annual Book of ASTM Standards contain 13,000 standards written by 34,000 members on our 140 technical committees. Committee D02 on Petroleum Products, Liquid Fuels, and Lubricants developed the standards used in this course. For more information, go to our D02 technical committee page.
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Cancellation Policy
Note: Because of the potential for course changes or cancellations, it is not advisable to make non-refundable accommodation reservations, since ASTM cannot be responsible for any loss incurred.
- Full refunds (minus $100 administrative fee) are available up to 5 business days before the course.
- Transfers to a later session (within the same calendar year) or alternate attendee substitutions are allowed at no charge up to 5 days before the course.
- Cancellations within 5 days of the course start will receive a 50% refund.
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