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Old 15th March 2009 | 17:05
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I told you before...stick to what you know (clearly not fuel systems)! Take the water out at the refinery (they do - there are filters and coalescers) and it will be back again by the time the fuel reaches the aircraft.

Water is removed and checked for again and again. But the nature of the fuelling supply chain and the fact that heating and cooling of fuel takes dissolved water and condenses and re-entrains it as free/suspended water means it will ALWAYS be present at low levels in aircraft tanks.

The point that I agree with you is that there are lots of other fuel related questions that havent been asked, let alone answered. Chinese Jet fuel has an incredibly low (better) freeze point than Jet (-40C) or Jet A-1 (-47C). At THAT temperature (better than - 50C) how would the GE system perform?

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