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    Jet fuel or aviation turbine fuel (ATF, also abbreviated avtur) is a type of aviation fuel designed for use in aircraft powered by gas-turbine engines...
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    the cost of fuel. Jet fuel is a clear to straw-colored fuel, based on either an unleaded kerosene (Jet A-1), or a naphtha–kerosene blend (Jet B). Similar...
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    flight. Most modern subsonic jet aircraft use more complex high-bypass turbofan engines. They give higher speed and greater fuel efficiency than piston and...
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    An aviation biofuel (also known as bio-jet fuel, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) or bio-aviation fuel (BAF)) is a biofuel used to power aircraft. The International...
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    voltage. APUs can provide power through single or three-phase systems. A jet fuel starter (JFS) is a similar device to an APU but directly linked to the...
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    JATO (acronym for jet-assisted take-off) is a type of assisted take-off for helping overloaded aircraft into the air by providing additional thrust in...
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    approval of twin-engine jets to fly farther from diversion airports as reliability increased, and an increased emphasis on fuel efficiency. The engines...
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    Pulsejet (redirect from Pulse jet)
    exhaust jet that intermittently produces thrust. The traditional valved pulsejet has one-way valves through which incoming air passes. When the fuel mix is...
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  • airbreathing jet engines heat the air by burning fuel. Alternatively a heat exchanger may be used, as in a nuclear-powered jet engine. Most modern jet engines...
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  • JP-8 (redirect from JP-8 fuel)
    JP-8, or JP8 (for "Jet Propellant 8"), is a jet fuel, specified and used widely by the US military. It is specified by MIL-DTL-83133 and British Defence...
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  • sees his bars skitter across glorious brass lines and earworm riffs". "Jet Fuel" was described as "sluggish, dancehall-inflected trip hop", and "What's...
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    revamped versions of the E-Jet to be called the E-Jet E2 family. The new jets would feature improved engines that would be more fuel efficient and take advantage...
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  • JP-10 (Jet Propellant 10) is a synthetic jet fuel, specified and used mainly as fuel in missiles. Being designed for military purposes, it is not a kerosene...
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    the fuel used for takeoff is relatively large compared to the amount expended in the cruise segment, and because less fuel-efficient regional jets are...
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    extreme fuels[clarification needed], and the human body not being suited to flight, so they are principally used for stunts. A practical use for the jet pack...
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    JP-7 (redirect from Jet Propellant 7)
    Turbine Fuel Low Volatility JP-7, commonly known as JP-7 (referred to as Jet Propellant 7 prior to MIL-DTL-38219) is a specialized type of jet fuel developed...
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    Avgas (redirect from Swift fuel)
    reduce or eliminate the use of lead in aviation gasoline. Kerosene-based jet fuel is formulated to suit the requirements of turbine engines which have no...
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  • liquid cargo off the coast. The production of diesel fuel and aviation fuel A1 (the most common jet fuel except for the US) started in January 2024. The Dangote...
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  • Kerosene (redirect from Paraffin (fuel))
    scientific and industrial usage. Kerosene is widely used to power jet engines of aircraft (jet fuel), as well as some rocket engines in a highly refined form...
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    on the tips of the rotor blades that are fueled from a tank. If the helicopter's engine fails, the tip jets on the rotor increase the moment of inertia...
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  • surrogate for kerosene-based fuels such as Jet-A, S-8, and other conventional aviation fuels. It is considered a second-generation fuel surrogate designed to...
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    Ramjet (redirect from Solid-fueled ramjet)
    fueled with hydrogen. The GIRD-08 phosphorus-fueled ramjet was tested by firing it from an artillery cannon. These shells may have been the first jet-powered...
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    combat. The afterburning process injects additional fuel into a combustor ("burner") in the jet pipe behind (i.e., "after") the turbine, "reheating"...
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    use or use in manufacturing. Products include fuels such as gasoline (petrol), diesel, kerosene and jet fuel; asphalt and lubricants; chemical reagents used...
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  • Zip fuel, also known as high energy fuel (HEF), is any member of a family of jet fuels containing additives in the form of hydro-boron compounds, or boranes...
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    quality by dehydrogenation" using the DHD process). Synthetic fuel grades included "T.L. [jet] fuel", "first quality aviation gasoline", "aviation base gasoline"...
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  • JP-4 (redirect from JP-4 (fuel))
    JP-4, or JP4 (for "Jet Propellant") was a jet fuel, specified in 1951 by the United States Department of Defense (MIL-DTL-5624). Its NATO code is F-40...
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    such as hydrogen fuel (for automotive uses), ethanol, jet fuel and bio-diesel, which are all categorized as liquid fuels. Emulsified fuels of oil in water...
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  • remove mercaptans from LPG, propane, butanes, light naphthas, kerosene, and jet fuel by converting them to liquid hydrocarbon disulfides. The Merox process...
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    jet fuel is modified to operate in without coagulating or waxing. MTT has fuelled the Y2K with diesel, kerosene and Bio-Fuel (all similar to jet fuel...
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