Jeffrey F Cramer

US Patent:

20160209379, Jul 21, 2016

Filed:

Sep 29, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/869944

Inventors:

Robert E. Morris - Silver Spring MD, US
Mark H. Hammond - Alexandria VA, US
Kevin J. Johnson - Alexandria VA, US
Jeffrey A. Cramer - Alexandria VA, US

Assignee:

The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy - Washington DC

International Classification:

G01N 30/72

Abstract:

A system is described that includes a known fuels database of data from gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analyses of a library of fuels with known fuel properties for a multiple known fuel samples. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry equipment can acquire gas chromatography-mass spectrometry data for an unknown fuel sample. A metaspectrum module can accept and transform the gas chromatography-mass spectrometry data collected by the gas chromatography-mass spectrometry equipment for the unknown fuel sample into a single metaspectrum for the unknown fuel sample, wherein the metaspectrum is a quantitative representation of every compound detected in the unknown fuel sample. A correlation module can correlate the metaspectrum for the unknown fuel sample to a plurality of fuel properties of known fuel samples using a regression model to predict fuel properties for the unknown fuel sample. A reporting module can report the fuel properties for the unknown fuel sample to a user.