8824 Fallbrook Drive
Houston, TX 77064 USA
Phone: 800.444.TEST
Fax: 281.580.0719
PAC’s renowned Alcor instrumentation line provides the aviation and fuels industries with consistent monitoring of critical fuel performance.
Alcor by PAC is a global supplier of advanced petrochemical, fuel and lubricant research and testing solutions for aviation. Alcor instrumentation measures and verifies: jet fuel thermal oxidation, the tendency of materials to thermally degrade and form coke under high temperature conditions, and thermal degradation of turbine fuels under a variety of conditions. Alcor’s high-quality instruments exceed global standard specifications and are recognized worldwide as the leading technology for precision fuel analysis. Alcor products include jet fuel thermal oxidation testers, heater tubes, microcarbon residue testers, and visual tube raters. The line includes the JFTOT® III, MCRT, and VTDR systems.
Since its inception in 1959, the Alcor brand has been synonymous with quality and innovation. When the fuels industry needed a new instrument to measure fuel thermal oxidation, Alcor introduced the jet fuel thermal oxidation tester, JFTOT®, now recognized as the industry standard in jet fuel testing. The Alcor JFTOT® III is the latest generation of jet fuel analysis instruments allowing faster, simpler testing.
Alcor’s JFTOT® and Heater Tubes are the only jet fuel thermal oxidation tester and tubes that comply with ASTM D3241, IP 323 and ISO 6249. Automatic test runs ensure fuel is purged with air, the sample test section is washed with sample, and the test is initiated and run to completion without need of operator intervention. The built-in safety system automatically stops the flow of test fuel in the event of an O-ring leak or tubing break.
Alcor’s MCRT-160 provides safe, simple measurement of a petroleum product’s tendency to thermally degrade and form coke under high temperature pyrolyzing conditions. Its powerful digital control over all ASTM D 4530 test steps delivers results equivalent to Conradson Carbon (ASTM D 189) with significantly less inconvenience or fuss. A typical D 189 carbon residue analysis can easily take 90 minutes or more of a skilled operator’s time. The MCRT-160 frees skilled lab personnel for more important tasks.
Alcor’s Video Tube Deposit Rater (VTDR) is designed to analyze JFTOT® heater tube deposits, rate the results, and create a permanent electronic record that enables the operator to send the results anywhere via e-mail within moments of completing the test. JFTOT® analysis ASTM D 3241 is a standard test required to certify every batch of jet fuel produced by evaluating the thermal oxidation stability of the fuel. An objective analysis of deposits produced on the test coupon or the heater tube is critical to this test. Because visual capabilities vary, results can be quite subjective. The automated Video TDR produces an accurate analysis of JFTOT® heater tube deposits each time and result subjectivity is virtually eliminated.
Although the VTDR is not approved in D3241 or IP323 to rate heater tubes, it can be a powerful tool:
