Laboratory Testing and Blending DRAFT SOW.pdf

Draft Statement of Work

Independent Laboratory Contract for Fuel Testing and Blending Services

1.0 Scope of Work

This contract is to provide independent lab services for aviation gasolines, experimental fuel blends and additives, turbine fuels, alternative turbine fuels, and lubricating oils. Further, purchase of blend components, and handling and blending may be required by the independent laboratory of leaded and unleaded fuels (including lead and amine additives, aromatics, ethers, alcohols, isomerates, metallic additives, and catalysts).

1.1 Period of Performance

The FAA anticipates the period of performance for the firm fixed price (FFP), Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) type contract to extend four years from the date of award.

This will include one Base Year and three (3) Option Years.

2.0 Requirements

All testing and blending must be done at the contractor’s laboratory facility with the required octane and other tests per FAA requirements; without use of secondary locations, third party, or subcontracted facilities. All testing must be done in the Continental United States.

Laboratory must be have experience in performing ASTM D2700 motor octane method testing (all procedures within D 2700) for fuels above and below 100 MON, ASTM D 909 Supercharge rich Performance Number testing for piston aviation fuels including experimental high-aromatic and unleaded base fuels, cetane index and cetane quality ASTM tests (including ASTM D613, D6890, D7170, D976-80). The laboratory must be able to perform all of the tests listed in Table 1 in-house.

The contractor must have experience blending fuels; specifically the blends matching those listed in Table 2. The contractor must supply them in 55-gallon drums to the FAA Technical Center (FAA TC) or the facility identified by the FAA TC Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) for testing. Subcontracted and third party testing and blending is not acceptable.

2.1 Tasks and Deliverables

The FAA will issue Technical Direction Letters to detail the specific laboratory tests, reporting requirements, and/or blend services from Tables 1 and/or 2 as required for each issued Task Order.

The lab must provide a quote, based on a pre-determined pricing, within three (3) business days of receiving request for quote from FAA TC personnel.

A Certificate of Analyses, referencing the quote number and labels from fuel sample cans, must be supplied via PDF format to the FAA TC COR via email within seven (7) business days of receiving the test samples.

The contractor must provide a report detailing observations and or findings made during or after testing or blending, in addition to Certificate of Analyses, to the FAA TC in Microsoft Word, Excel, and or PDF format.

The Blends required to be made by the independent laboratory must be supplied to the FAA TC or identified testing facility within twenty (20) business days of receiving the request from the

FAA TC.

If included in the list of required services under the TDL, a quote for blend component materials must be submitted for approval prior to purchase of the materials.

Table 1. ASTM Test Methods

* All methods latest version

*ASTM Method Description

D 86 Distillation of Petroleum Products

D 93 Flash Point, Pensky-Martens Closed Cup

D 130 Copper Corrosion, Petroleum Products

E 203 Water Using Karl Fischer Reagent

D 381 Existent Gum in Fuels (Air Jet)

D 445 Viscosity, Kinematic

D 525 Oxidation Stability of Gasoline (Induction Period)

D 873 Oxidation Stability of Aviation Fuels (Potential Residue Method)

D 909 Supercharge Rating of Aviation Gasoline (Rich Performance Number)

D 910 Standard Specification for Aviation Gasolines

D 974 Standard Test Method for Acid and Base Number by Color-Indicator

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D 1094 Water Reaction of Aviation Fuels

D 1500 Color of Petroleum Products, ASTM

D 2622 Sulfur in Petroleum Products by X-Ray Spectrometry

D 2624 Conductivity of Aviation and Distillate Fuels

D 2699 Octane Number, Research Method

D 2700 Octane Number, Motor Method

D 2896 Base Number by Potentiometric Perchloric Acid Titration

D 3237 Lead in Gasoline by Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy

D 3341 Lead in Gasoline - Iodine Monochloride Method

D 3525 Gasoline Diluent in Used Gasoline Engine Oils by Gas Chromatography

D 3606 Benzene and Toluene in Finished Motor and Aviation Gasoline

D 3831 Manganese in Gasoline by Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy

D 4052 Density and Relative Density of Liquids by Digital Density Meter

D 4629 Nitrogen in Petroleum Hydrocarbons by Chemiluminescence Detection

D 4809 Heat of Combustion by Bomb Calorimeter (Intermediate Precision Method)

D 5059 Lead in Gasoline by X-Ray Spectroscopy

D 5059 Manganese in Gasoline by X-Ray Spectroscopy

D 5185 Trace Elements in Lubricating and Base Oils by ICP-AES. first element (Iron, Lead, Copper, Chromium, Aluminum, Nickel, Silver, Tin, Titanium, Silicon, Sodium, Zinc, Calcium, Barium, Magnesium, Molybdenum, Antimony, Potassium, Phosphorus, Boron) first element

D 5185 Trace Elements in Lubricating and Base Oils by ICP-AES. subsequent elements (Iron, Lead, Copper, Chromium, Aluminum, Nickel, Silver, Tin, Titanium, Silicon, Sodium, Zinc, Calcium, Barium, Magnesium, Molybdenum, Antimony, Potassium, Phosphorus, Boron) remaining 19 elements, per element

D 5188 Vapor-Liquid Ratio Temperature Determination of Fuels

D 5191 Vapor Pressure of Petroleum Products (Mini Method)

D 6304 Karl Fisher, Coulometric

D 6738 Vapor Pressure of Petroleum Products (Triple Expansion Method)

D 7171 Hydrogen Content of Middle Distillate Petroleum Products

D 4814 A1 Silver Strip Corrosion

D 4814 X2 Temperature for V/L of 20, Linear Equation Method

D 664 Standard Test Method for Acid Number of Petroleum Products by Potentiometric Titration

D 7042 Test Method for Dynamic Viscosity and Density of Liquids by Stabinger Viscometer (and the Calculation of Kinematic Viscosity)

D 2386 Freezing Point of Aviation Fuels

Table 2 – Custom Leaded aviation gasoline fuel blends

Hi – aromatic 100Low Lead aviation gasoline

Provide a fully compliant D910 aviation gasoline meeting all of the Table 1 specification requirements after the addition of 20% by volume toluene. All other blend components will be selected as necessary to meet Table 1 requirements with 20% toluene. Fuel must be undyed.

Minimum specification (minspec) 100Low Lead aviation gasoline

Provide a fully compliant D910 aviation gasoline prepared in a manner such that the final fuel has a total aromatic content of less than 5% by volume and a lead content of 0.47 gPb/L. Blend components will be selected such that the resulting MON and Supercharge PN are as close to Table 1 minimums as is possible while meeting all other Table 1 specification requirements except that the fuel must be undyed. Target MON values of 101.1 – 101.6 are desirable.