Electronic Quality

Control and Sensor

Marcus Wildschuetz
March 2017

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 Content

• To what spec should electronics comply?

• What parameters are quality controlled under

the wing today?

• What is reality under the wing today?

• What further opportunities?

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 What specification?

• EI 1598 2nd ed.

• No technology defined
• Performance is described
• For water and dirt

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 Quality parameters today

• Water
• Chemical Water detector
• Dirt
• Millipore
• DP (therefore dirt filtration performance)

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Quality parameters today

Source:
EI 1550
2nd ed

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 What is the bigger problem?

• Water
• 15-30 ppm
• Dirt
• 0,5 – 1 mg/l

• That‘s about 2 dimensions difference in

volume

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 Quality parameters today

Tank volume of a A380 is 310.000 l

The checked fuel volume is 0,010 l
Therefore the checked fuel is 0,00000323 %
of the total tank volume
The time
(approx. 3-5 Min)
to do that and
the waste
produced do
add up for all
refuellings
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 What could happen under the wing

l/min ppm
Actual
free water No water
level detection
sample

First Second
70
water water
detection detection 60
sample sample
50
(5ml) (5ml)
40
30
20
10
t

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 Field experience

60,00

free water level at inlet of monitor filter on dispenser truck

50,00

40,00
free water [ppm]

30,00

20,00

10,00

0,00

Date, Time

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 Field experience

free water level at outlet of monitor filter on dispenser truck

60,00

50,00
free water level [ppm]

40,00

30,00

20,00

10,00

0,00

date and time

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 Field experience
18,00

16,00
free water on inlet of FWS during fuelling
free water level ilet of FWS

14,00

12,00

10,00

8,00

6,00

4,00

2,00

0,00

Time

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 What are the next steps?

Ideas:
• Have a quality control the whole process
from refinery to aircraft
• Therefore find sources of problems
and solve the problem at it root cause
• Exchange elements only on performance
(Is water shedding or water absorbing
still okay?)

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 Conclusion

• Free water is the biggest thread to fuel

quality
• In hydrant I may occur at all times
• Free water sensor will give a constant
quality control
• A lot of opportunities ahead for cost saving
and quality improvement

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 Final Slide

Thank you for attention

FAUDI Aviation GmbH

Scharnhorststrasse 7B
D-35260 Stadtallendorf
Phone: +49 6428 4465-275
Email: contact@faudi-aviation.com
Web: www.faudi-aviation.com

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