Technical Committee Automotive Fuels

Microbial Contamination of Fuels (Literature search)

The literature search provides an overview of general and special microbiological phenomena and of their fundamentals in conjunction with the contamination of mineral oil based fuels. Thereby, the search considers environmental conditions for a successful colonisation by micro-organisms as well as occurrence of different taxa, which were identified in individual cases, thus trying to form a basis for the understanding of actual calamities with B5 fuels in Germany.