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66 -- FUEL QUALITY SENSORS SOL N47408-00-R-8881 DUE 032000 POC Ms. Naomi Melendez, 805-982-5095, fax 805-982-3015, melendeznm@slc.navfac.navy.mil DESC: Sources Sought. Fuel Quality. The Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center (NFESC) is seeking sources of advanced technologies suitable for upgrading "out of range" indigenous fuels of suspicious quality, using filtration or other methods to a "usable" condition. The fuel quality will be assessed using handheld instruments and fuel quality test kits as well as smaller variants of typical fuel quality testing mobile stations. It is envisioned that several properties of diesel fuel (also kerosene's and gasoline's) including; density, viscosity, total aromatics, cretonne index, octane index, cloud point, moisture, particulate and net heat of combustion which can be assessed with these emerging technologies may become "out of range" for expectable usage of the fuel in Military vehicles. Other fuel qualities which may become "out of range" are of interest such as API Gravity, Alcohol, Cetane Index, Cetane Number, Cloud Point, Copper Corrosion, Oxidation Stability, Distillation, Flash Point, Lead, Sulfur, Octane, Total Oxygen, Vapor Pressure, Saybolt Color, Viscosity, Water and Sediment, Water Tolerance. Although technology focus is primarily for diesel fuel, reasonable methods to place fuel within usable range for kerosenes and gasoline are of interest. All information shall be forwarded at no cost to the Government by 20 March 2000. Information provided after that date will also be accepted. This notice is not a request for proposals and no contract will be awarded by this office solely on the basis of the responses hereto, or any follow-up information subsequently solicited. Posted 02/23/00 (W-SN427867). (0054)

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