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66 -- HANDHELD FUEL QUALITY INSTRUMENTS SOL N47408-00-R-8884 DUE 032500 POC Ms. Naomi Melendez, 805-982-5095, fax 805-982-3015, email melendeznm@slc.navfac.navy.mil SUBJECT: HANDHELD FUEL QUALITY INSTRUMENTS DESC: Sources Sought. The Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center (NFESC) is seeking sources of technologies suitable for the determination of indigenous fuel quality 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 kerosenes and gasolines) including; density, viscosity, total aromatics, cetane index, octane index, cloud point, moisture, particulates and net heat of combustion can be assessed with these emerging technologies. Calibration models for over 30 fuel properties currently exist, but their degrees of accuracy vary. The properties cited may provide the most accurate estimates concerning the quality of the fuel however, other qualities 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 property estimates for kerosenes and gasoline are of interest. All information shall be forwarded at no cost to the Government by 25 March 2000. 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 02/25/00 (W-SN428784). (0056)

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