GB 6537-2025 No.3 jet fuel English, Anglais, Englisch, Inglés, えいご
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ICS75.160.20
CCSE31
National Standard of the People's Republic of China
GB6537-2025
Replaces GB6537-2018
No.3 jet fuel
Released on August 29, 2025 Implementation on September 1, 2026
State Administration for Market Regulation, National Standardization Administration
Contents
Preface
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and Definitions
4 Abbreviations
5 Technical requirements and test methods
6 Inspection Rules
7 Marking, packaging, transportation, storage and delivery acceptance
8 Safety
Appendix A (Normative) Name and Amount of Additives
Appendix B (Normative) Kerosene Component Produced by Fischer-Tropsch Synthetic Oil Reforming Process (FT-SPK)
Appendix C (Normative) Kerosene components produced by hydrogenation of bio-based esters and fatty acids (HEFA-SPK)
References
No.3 jet fuel
Warning: If appropriate precautions are not followed, the products covered by this document may be dangerous during production, storage, transportation and use.
This document does not intend to provide recommendations for all safety issues related to this product. Users are responsible for taking appropriate safety and health measures and ensuring that the conditions specified in relevant national laws and regulations are met.
1 Scope
This document specifies the technical requirements and test methods, inspection rules, marking, packaging, transportation, storage, delivery acceptance and safety of No. 3 jet fuel produced from natural crude oil or its fractions, and synthetic hydrocarbon kerosene fractions.
This document applies to No. 3 jet fuel for aviation turbine engines.
2 Normative references
The contents of the following documents constitute the essential terms of this document through normative references in this document. Among them, for referenced documents with dates, only the versions corresponding to the dates apply to this document; for referenced documents without dates, the latest versions (including all amendments) apply to
This document.
GB190 Dangerous Goods Packaging Mark
GB/T261 Determination of flash point Pensky-Martin closed cup method
GB/T265 Determination of kinematic viscosity and calculation of dynamic viscosity of petroleum products
GB/T380 Determination of sulfur content in petroleum products (lamp method)
GB/T382 Determination of smoke point of kerosene and jet fuel
GB/T384 Determination of calorific value of petroleum products
GB/T509 Determination of actual colloid content in engine fuel
GB/T 1792 Determination of mercaptan sulfur in gasoline, kerosene, jet fuel and distillate fuels - Potentiometric titration method
GB/T1793 Test method for the reaction of aviation fuel with water
GB/T 1884 Laboratory determination of density of crude oil and liquid petroleum products (density meter method)
GB/T1885 Petroleum Meter
GB/T2429 Calculation method for net calorific value of aviation fuel
GB/T2430 Determination of freezing point of aviation fuel
GB/T3555 Determination of Saybolt color of petroleum products - Saybolt colorimeter method
GB/T4756 Manual sampling method for petroleum liquids
GB/T5096 Petroleum products copper strip corrosion test method
GB/T5208 Determination of flash point - Rapid equilibrium closed cup method
GB/T6536 Determination of atmospheric distillation characteristics of petroleum products
GB/T6539 Determination of electrical conductivity of aviation fuel and distillate fuel
GB6944 Dangerous Goods Classification and Product Name Numbers
GB/T8019 Determination of colloid content in fuels - Jet evaporation method
GB/T9169 Determination of thermal oxidation stability of jet fuel
GB/T11132 Determination of hydrocarbons in liquid petroleum products - Fluorescence indicator adsorption method
3 Terms and Definitions
There are no terms or definitions that require definition in this document.
4 Abbreviations
The following abbreviations apply to this document.
FAME: Fatty Acid Methyl Ester.
FT-SPK: Kerosene component (FischerTropsch-SynthesizedParaffinicKerosine) produced by FischerTropsch synthetic oil reforming process.
HEFA-SPK: Kerosene components produced by hydrogenation of esters and fatty acids
Acids-SynthesizedParaffinicKerosine)ÿ
5 Technical requirements and test methods
5.1 The raw materials, production process and additives used in the production of No. 3 jet fuel shall comply with the prescribed approval procedures. Additives shall meet the requirements of Appendix In addition to the above elements meeting the requirements of the procedures, the production process should be constructed according to the approval requirements, and the selection of raw materials and additives should be carried out in accordance with the requirements of the approval process. The production enterprises of additives should comply with the requirements of national laws and regulations during the production process. The production enterprises should use raw materials that meet the requirements of product standards. Additives, etc.
5.2 No. 3 jet fuel shall meet the technical requirements of Table 1 and the test methods shall be in accordance with those specified in Table 1.
5.3 The technical requirements for No. 3 jet fuel containing FT-SPK synthetic hydrocarbon components shall, in addition to meeting the requirements in Table 1, also meet the following requirements: The FT-SPK synthetic hydrocarbon component shall meet the requirements of Appendix B, and the traditional petroleum-based components in the No. 3 jet fuel containing the FT-SPK component shall be The integral fraction should be no less than 50%. No. 3 jet fuel containing FT-SPK synthetic hydrocarbon components, the aromatic volume fraction is not less than 8.0%, the distillation range is The difference between the 50% recovery temperature and the 10% recovery temperature shall not be less than 15°C, and the difference between the 90% recovery temperature and the 10% recovery temperature in the distillation range shall not be less
