Conclusion

While gasoline is inextricably linked to piston engines for light aviation, kerosene is linked to turbomachinery for commercial, military and private aviation, as well as for the vast majority of helicopters. The kerosene cutter, which makes up the jet fuel, has been used in turbomachinery since the 1940s. Ideally situated between the gasoline and diesel cuts, this cut met the specific requirements of this new engine in terms of cold stability, viscosity, volatility, etc. Since then, jet fuel, still mainly derived from petroleum distillation, has slowly evolved to meet new needs, but also to take account of the lessons learned from accidents, some of them dramatic.

The petroleum and aeronautics industries have taken the specifications describing the product and the associated characterization methods seriously and rigorously, in order to guarantee its safe use....