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Fuel Quality Publications

Listed below are publications that relate specifically to fuel quality activities of the Department of the Environment, Water Heritage and the Arts. Hard copies of some of these publications are available free of charge from the Community Information Unit.

Other atmosphere publications are available from the Atmosphere Publications page of this web site.

Fuel Quality

Books, reports and series

• Evaluating the Health Impacts of Ethanol Blend Petrol - June 2008
• Cetane discussion paper - National Fuel Quality Standards: Measuring cetane number: options for diesel and alternative diesel fuels - April 2004
• Companies approved to supply leaded fuel in Australia
• Draft standard for fuel parameters (biodiesel) - Commonwealth position - August 2003
• Literature Review Based Assessment on the Impacts of a 10% and 20% Ethanol Gasoline Fuel Blend on Non-Automotive Engines - December 2000
• Literature Review Based Assessment on the Impacts of a 20% Ethanol Gasoline Fuel Blend on the Australian Vehicle Fleet - November 2000
• Marine Outboard Driveability Assessment to Determine Impacts of a 10% and 20% Ethanol Gasoline Fuel Blend on a Small Batch of Engines - February 2003
• Regulation Impact Statement for the Fuel Standard (Petrol) Determination 2001 and the Fuel Standard (Automotive Diesel) Determination 2001 - 2001
• Review of fuel quality requirements for Australian transport commences - Background paper
• Review of Fuel Quality Requirements for Australian Transport - March 2000
• Review of fuel quality report stakeholder consultation and scenario development - 2001
• Proposed management of diesel/biodiesel blends - Position Paper - January 2008
• Standardising diesel/biodiesel blends - Discussion paper - November 2006
• Setting national fuel quality standards - discussion papers:
  • Paper 1 - Summary Report of the Review of Fuel Quality Requirements for Australian Transport and Assessment of Benefits and Costs of Adopting New Standards
  • Paper 2 - Proposed Standards for Fuel Parameters (Petrol and Diesel) - May 2000
  • Paper 2A - Proposed Management of Petrol Octane Enhancing Additives/Products
  • Paper 3 - proposed model for standards implementation - May 2000
  • Paper 4 - Discussion Paper on Operability Fuel Parameters (Petrol and Diesel) - August 2001
  • Paper 5 - Proposed standards for liquefied petroleum gas (Autogas) - October 2001
  • Paper 6 - National Standard for Biodiesel - March 2003
    • Discussion paper submissions
  • Paper 7 - Diesohol - May 2004
• Setting national fuel quality standards - proposed standards for fuel parameters (petrol and diesel) - revised commonwealth position - 2000
• Setting the Ethanol Limit in Petrol - Jan 2002
• Technical Assessment of E10 and E20 Petrol Ethanol Blends Applied to Non-Automotive Engines: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis of Engine Function and Component Design for Mercury Marine 15hp Outboard and Stihl FS45 Line-Trimmer Engines - November 2002
• Testing Based Assessment to Determine Impacts of a 10% and 20% Ethanol Gasoline Fuel Blend on Non-Automotive Engines - January 2003
• Testing Based Assessment to Determine Impacts of a 20% Ethanol Gasoline Fuel Blend on the Australian Passenger Vehicle Fleet - March 2003
• Testing Based Assessment to Determine Impacts of a 10% and 20% Ethanol Gasoline Fuel Blend on Non-automotive Engines - 2000hrs Material Compatibility Testing - May 2003
• Testing Based Assessment to Determine Impacts of a 20% Ethanol Gasoline Fuel Blend on the Australian Passenger Vehicle Fleet - 2000hrs Material Compatibility Testing - May 2003
• Testing Gasoline Containing 20% Ethanol (E20) - Phase 2B Final Report Market Barriers to the Uptake of Biofuels Study - May 2004

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Newsletters, magazines and bulletins

• Clean fuels bulletin

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Brochures, fact sheets and case studies

• Selling ethanol blends? Don't keep it a secret!
• Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000 labelling requirements from 1 March 2004
  • Ethanol blend petrol label
• National fuel quality standards: Monitoring compliance enforcement - 2002
• National fuel quality standards: What do they mean for the petroleum industry? - 2002
• National standards for fuel quality

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Guidelines, manuals, standards and labels

• Fuel quality standards (register of prohibited fuel additives) guidelines 2003
• Procedures Manual for Approvals - Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000