ASTM International Training Course focuses on aviation fuels.

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Titled Aviation Fuels: Specifications and Test Methods, technical and professional training course focuses on how specifications are used to control quality of aviation fuels and why they affect product performance and availability. Course emphasizes practical applications and ASTM International's role in developing specifications and methods, while highlighting past and current problems. It also features tour of either airport fueling facility or fuel farm.



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Aviation Fuels Focus of ASTM International Training Course



W. CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., November 11, 2009-Aviation Fuels: Specifications and Test Methods, a technical and professional training course sponsored by ASTM International, focuses on how specifications are used to control the quality of aviation fuels and why they affect product performance and availability.

The course emphasizes practical applications and ASTM International's role in developing specifications and methods, while highlighting past and current problems. The course features a tour of either an airport fueling facility or fuel farm. This class is designed for supervisors, managers and other professionals in the fields of laboratory operations, fuel handling, purchasing, fuel system design, fuel marketing and sales, and quality control.

The course will be held four times in 2010: Feb. 23-25 in San Diego, Calif.; April 27-29 in West Conshohocken, Pa. (ASTM headquarters); Aug. 17-19 in Boston, Mass.; and Oct. 26-28 in Houston, Texas.

The attendance fee is $1095 and includes all ASTM standards and manuals referenced in the course, course notes, transportation to and from the demonstration site and refreshment breaks. For a free brochure that includes registration and hotel information, contact Eileen Finn, ASTM International, West Conshohocken, Pa. (phone: 610-832-9686; fax: 610-832-9668; efinn@astm.org) or visit the ASTM home page at www.astm.org.

This course can be tailored to your company's needs and can be brought by ASTM International to your site. Contact Scott Murphy, ASTM International (phone: 610-832-9685; smurphy@astm.org) for details.

ASTM International is one of the largest international standards development and delivery systems in the world. ASTM International meets the World Trade Organization (WTO) principles for the development of international standards: coherence, consensus, development dimension, effectiveness, impartiality, openness, relevance and transparency. ASTM standards are accepted and used in research and development, product testing, quality systems and commercial transactions.

ASTM Staff Contact: Eileen Finn, Phone: 610-832-9686; efinn@astm.org

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