The range and characteristics of fuels, additives and lubricants are ever-changing. Emissions Analytics supports a wide range of companies in real-world performance and comparison testing for the next generation of fuels for on-road, off-road and marine applications.

In-use performance testing

The urgent need to lower the carbon footprint of fuels must not come at the expense of local air quality. When considering switching a fleet away from a conventional fuel it is critical to assess the emissions and fuel economy implications of that decision. By employing a rigorous and repeatable test methodology, single percentage changes in fuel consumption can be recorded. With the use of traditional PEMS enhanced by our proprietary real-world VOC testing, Emissions Analytics can measure both regulated and unregulated pollutants on the road.

Composition and provenance testing

The fuels and lubricants supply chain is highly sophisticated, but is now being put under pressure to increase the volume of renewable fuels produced, to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The quality of fuels can be analysed using Emissions Analytics’ laboratory, which employs two-dimensional gas chromatography and time-of-flight mass spectrometry to profile fully the organic compounds. This enables batch testing for uniformity. The compounds can be organised into functional groups, such as aromatics, which can help characterise the environmental effects from the fuel combustion. Further, a detailed chemical fingerprint of the fuel or lubricant can be determined, for the purposes of determining the geographical or supplier provenance.

We can test to any of these standards.