What Is Aircraft Fuel?

Aviation fuel is a variety of fuel specifically designed for use in aircraft. It is of a higher quality than that used in heating systems and cars, and usually contains various additives to reduce the risk of icing and explosion due to high temperatures.

Aviation fuels are divided into two main categories: Aviation Gasoline (Avgas), which is used in aircraft with reciprocating engines. Jet fuel, used in aviation gas turbine engines and ramjet engines, was exempted from taxation at an international conference held in Chicago in 1944.

Aviation fuel is a variety of fuel specifically designed for use in aircraft and is of a higher quality than that used in heating systems and cars, often containing different additives to reduce the risk of icing and explosion due to high temperatures. Aviation fuels are divided into two main categories: Aviation Gasoline (Avgas), which is used in aircraft with reciprocating engines.

Aviation paraffin (Jet fuel), used in aviation gas turbine engines and ramjet engines, was exempted from taxation at an international conference held in Chicago in 1944.

The main processing equipment for aviation fuel is the aviation piston engine. The aviation piston engine works on the same principle as the general automobile engine, but is more powerful and lighter, so the quality requirements for aviation gasoline are similar to those for automobile gasoline.

Now this engine is only used for some auxiliary aircraft, such as helicopters, communication aircraft, meteorological aircraft, etc., so the corresponding amount of aviation gasoline is greatly reduced.

Jet fuel handling equipment is mainly turbojet engines. With the development of the aviation industry and civil aviation, the power unit of large passenger aircraft in civil aviation is gradually replaced by the turbojet engine. This engine propels the aircraft forward by burning fuel into gas to produce thrust, using a fuel called jet fuel.

There are two main types of aviation fuel used by the world's airlines: aviation gasoline and jet fuel, which are used in different types of aircraft engines. Aviation gasoline is used as fuel for piston engines. As the jet fuel commonly produced and widely used at home and abroad is mostly of the paraffin type, it is usually called aviation paraffin, or aviation coal for short.