Chevron Phillips Chemical offers performance fuels that are used by vehicle and vehicle component manufacturers to test and design their products. Testing is necessary to ensure that these products perform as expected using the various fuels in the marketplace or fuels expected to be available in the future. Petroleum refiners, marketers, and fuel additive suppliers use these fuels to ensure that their products meet requirements for emissions and performance in current and future vehicles or to design products for the future.

These fuels are not used to define the quality of other fuels. They are used to establish performance expectations of an engine or vehicle when exposed to a specific fuel. They are used primarily in vehicles operated on a dynamometer (dyno), in engines on test stands, and in the development of fuel handling systems and components.

We also supply fuels meeting established industry and military specifications to support various transportation vehicle testing and design requirements and fuels to specifications that can be found in various countries including the U.S., Asia, Latin America, and the CEC.

We supply performance fuels blended to over 400 specifications in 1- and 5-gallon cans, 54-gallon drums, and in bulk quantities.

Chevron Phillips Chemical can supply some military specification diesel fuels, jet fuels, and jet reference fuels used in destructive testing, as well as fuels made to meet API, EPA, CARB, IP, ISO, DIN, ECE, and other specifications. We also have the flexibility to supply fuels with varying amounts of ethers (e.g., MTBE, ETBE, TAME), or alcohols (e.g., ethanol, methanol), ranging from 0 to 100%.

Chevron Phillips Chemical supplies standardized gasoline and diesel test fuels to meet federal or California specifications for fuels to be used in emissions certification testing. This enables the transportation industry to design diesel engines and engine emissions control technology for tomorrow today.

The specification ranges of these fuels are extremely tight to support closer agreement between respective laboratories and the auditing agency. If you need a "typical" or representative standard diesel fuel complying with Federal Register specifications, our .05 low-sulfur diesel emissions certification test fuel will satisfy that need.

A clear understanding of customer or product specifications needs to be established before starting production. The following parameters are listed as a guide to assist in obtaining the right fuel for your testing requirements:

• Lead content (or unleaded)
• Composition by hydrocarbon type or elemental analysis
• Vapor pressure (volatility)
• Cloud and pour point
• Distillation range 
• Maximum or minimum values in specifications
• Octane or cetane numbers