October 4-6, 2021
Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino | Las Vegas, NV
Topics will cover are all aspects of fuel handling, from the refinery to the wing, with the main focus on airport fuel handling for safety and quality control. This means hoses, storage tanks, refuelers, filters, meters, additive, microbes, bonding and grounding, supervision of fueling.
Subject matter:
- Miss-fueling
- Contamination of aviation fuels
- Filters – the latest developments and standards from EI
- Hoses to aviation specifications
- Nozzles and Control valves
- Static Electricity
- Refueler design
- An update on Avgas and the future
- An update on Sustainable Jet Fuel
- General fuel system design
- Military fueling
- DEF contamination and additive injection
- Differential Pressure, fueling pressures, testing and adjustment
Who should attend:
- Anyone in charge of fuel handling, refueling or refueling equipment
- Anyone looking to do more refueling especially getting into airline refueling
- Pilots who want to be better able to determine if their FBO is doing the job correctly
Cost to attend:
- $200 for qualified, pre-registered GSE Expo Attendees* or exhibitors ($275 on-site)
- $750 for non-exhibiting suppliers
Tentative Schedule as of June 21, 2021
Monday, October 4th
8:00am Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30am Opening by Jim Gammon
1st panel - Microbes - Condidia, FQS and ECHA
9:30 - 10:00am 2nd panel speakers: Misfueling, DEF and Additive Problems
Steve Berry (NATA) and Keith Clark (P66)
10 - 10:30am Break
10:30 - 11:30am 3rd Panel - Jet Fuel Filtration
Velcon, Facet and Faudi will speak on the latest developments and where EI/ATA/IATA/JIG stand on this.
11:30am - 12:00pm Synthetic, Sustainable and Alternate fuels, Jet and Avgas
Madi Mohtadi of Nobel, Roger Gaughan (ASTM), Keith Clark P66
12:00 – 1:00pm Lunch
1:00 - 1:30pm 4th Panel - Fuel Farm Maintenance
Keith Clark of P66 and John Pherrin of ClaVal
1:30 - 2:15pm 5th Panel - Refueler Chassis and Overall Maintenance
Marty Pelsky of Skymark, Tim Esterling Westmor, Keith Clark of P66
2:15 - 2:45pm 6th panel - Fuel Quality Control in a Changing World
Jim Gammon, Steve Berry of NATA, Keith Clark of P66, Faudi, Madi Mohtadi of Nobil Labs
2:45 – 3:00pm Break
3:00 - 4:00 pm 7th Panel - Modernization of Refuelers Are Computers the Future? SkyMark, Westmore, LC, TSC and Veeder Root
Tuesday, October 5th
8:00am Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 9:00am Opening by Jim Gammon
1st Panel Sampling for Laboratory Tests, Review of Fuel Sampling and Testing Overall
Madi Mohtadi, Nobel Labs, Jim Gammon
9:00 - 10:15am 2nd Panel on Refueling Nozzles and Fueling Control Valves Pressure controls and maintenance
Carter, Meggitt and ClaVal
10:15 - 10:30am Break
10:30 - 11:15am 3rd Panel - Avgas Fuel, Filtration and Fuel Handling in a Changing World
Velcon, Facet, Faudi, Roger Gaughan (ASTM) Keith Clark P66
11:15am -12:00pm 4th panel - Hose Issues and Options to the EI-1529 Standard
Pear (Continental Hose), Bill Lesser (Hewitt Hose)
12:00 – 4:00pm Visit GSE Expo
Wednesday, October 6th
8:00am Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30am Opening by Jim Gammon
1st Panel - Fuel Farm Control Valves, Testing, Maintenance and Adjustment
(ClaVal), John Leonard of Facet
9:30 – 10:00am Receiving Fuel
2nd Panel - Paperwork, White Buckets, Hydrometers
Jim Gammon, oil company, airlines, others
10:00 - 10:15am Break
10:15 - 11:00am The Importance of Proper Training and Supervision
NATA, Keith P66, SkyMark
11:00am - 12:00pm Construction - What to consider before doing fuel system construction
Mike Kluttz, Robert and Company
12:00 – 4:00pm Visit GSE Expo
* Qualified attendees include airlines, airports/FBOs, contract service providers, ground handlers, government and military personnel.