Petroleum Products QC

R J Patel  Petroleumqc Blogger Profile Internet site :   https://rjpatelioc.wixsite.com/petroleumqc Email : rjpatelioc2014@gmail.com Twitter : @RJPATEL13 WhatsApp Number:   Former QC Head of Indian Oil Corporation Ltd, Mumbai B.Tech (Chem. Engineering), 34 years with Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. Jun 1980 to Oct 2014. Out of this 23 years at HQ, contributing in framing petroleum QC policies at National level, with Oil Industry thru BIS, Civil and Defence Aviation- Government of India, Ministry of Petroleum etc. Exposer to Petroleum Product Quality Control thru Petroleum products Laboratories managing, Petroleum Storage Locations, Controlling Office working.  Overseen 51 Petroleum labs - construction, equipment purchase,  commissioning, recruiting lab personnel, training, accreditation ISO 9001 and NABL ISO 17025.  Product Quality failure investigations from Refineries to petroleum consumers.  Petroleum Technical committ...

British Airways BA-038 Heathrow Accident – Lessons Learned - Part 9 On January 17, 2008, a British Airways 777-236ER equipped with Rolls Royce RB211 Trent 800 engines, landed short of runway 27L at Heathrow International Airport. The airplane was operating as Flight 38 from Beijing to London with 136 passengers and 16 crew members on board. The airplane impacted the ground short of the runway, skidded in the grassy area and came to rest at the end of the runway. This resulted in substantial structural damage but there was no fire. Safety Assumptions: Fuel system design features would prevent formation of ice in quantities that could adversely affect engine operation.    But reality was not so.   The British Air Accidents Investigation Board (AAIB) determined that the most likely cause of the accident was a fuel flow restriction on both engines, resulting in a significant thrust loss during final approach. The fuel flow restriction was concluded to have bee...

British Airways flight BA -038 and water/Ice beheaviour in Jet Fuel & cause of accident  part 8 BritishAirways flight BA-038 accident and Aircraft Jet A-1 fuel System - part 5 of earlier blog describe various components of Boeing 777 on accident flight. The aircraft fuel tanks, fuel boost pumps, water scavenge pumps, Fuel Oil Heat Exchanger (FOHE) etc are shown in detail. Anaccident detail of BA-038 at Heathrow Airport is given in part 1 . This article gives Water behaviour in Aviation turbine fuel related to the accident flight. Results of laboratory testing   and experiments conducted as a part of Investigation  and cause of accident - are as follow: Aviation Turbine Fuel-Water Properties Aviation turbine fuel consist of a mixture of different hydrocarbons. Depending on the hydrocarbon mix, each property such as specific heat and freezing point can vary from batch to batch.. Aviation turbine fuel is manufactured at the refinery to a specification t...