{"id":17143,"date":"2013-09-27T10:28:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T08:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biomassmagazine.com\/articles\/9507\/astm-publishes-d7862-standard-for-butanol"},"modified":"2013-10-04T13:25:01","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T11:25:01","slug":"astm-publishes-d7862-standard-butanol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/astm-publishes-d7862-standard-butanol\/","title":{"rendered":"ASTM publishes D7862 standard for butanol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Butanol shows strong potential to be used as a biofuel. Now, a new ASTM International standard covers butanol that is intended to be blended with gasoline at 1 to 12.5 volume percent for use as an automotive spark-ignition engine fuel. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astm.org\/Standards\/D7862.htm\">ASTM D7862-13<\/a>, Specification for Butanol for Blending with Gasoline for Use as Automotive Spark-Ignition Engine Fuel, was developed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astm.org\/COMMIT\/SUBCOMMIT\/D02A0.htm\">Subcommittee D02.A0 on Gasoline and Oxygenated Fuels<\/a>, part of ASTM International <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astm.org\/COMMITTEE\/D02.htm\">Committee D02 on Petroleum Products, Liquid Fuels and Lubricants<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ASTM D7862 establishes performance requirements and test methods for butanol content, water content, acidity, inorganic chloride, solvent-washed gum, sulfur content and total sulfate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new ASTM standard for butanol will further commercialization of a new renewable fuel, and provide a fuel quality standard to govern the production and marketing of butanol,\u201d says Glenn Johnston, executive vice president, regulatory affairs, Gevo Inc., and a D02 member.<\/p>\n<p>Johnston says that butanol has several benefits as a blending agent in gasoline. Butanol is compatible with existing vehicles and refueling infrastructure, and it also offers a high blending value due to its low vapor pressure, high octane number and favorable distillation properties.t<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astm.org\/Standards\/D7862.htm\">ASTM D7862<\/a> specification will be used by biofuel producers, petroleum refiners, gasoline blenders, government agencies, inspection laboratories, and manufacturers of motor vehicles, marine engines and outdoor power equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Johnston encourages all interested parties to join in the standards developing activities of D02.A0. The subcommittee next plans to develop a proposed standard on the use of butanol in flexible fuel vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>To purchase ASTM standards, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astm.org\">www.astm.org<\/a> and search by the standard designation, or contact ASTM Customer Relations (phone: 877-909-ASTM; <a href=\"Mailto:sales@astm.org\">sales@astm.org<\/a>). ASTM International welcomes participation in the development of its standards. For more information on becoming an ASTM member, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astm.org\/JOIN\">www.astm.org\/JOIN<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Butanol has a new ASTM International standard, intended for blends with gasoline at 1 to 12.5 percen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[846,818],"class_list":["post-17143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-american-society-for-testing-and-materials-astm","supplier-gevo-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17143"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=17143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}