The Expert Committee Liquid Fuels, Lubricants, and Related Products (FAM), part of the Standards Committee for Materials Testing (NMP), is a division of the NMP within DIN. It operates in accordance with DIN guidelines. Pursuant to an agreement between DIN and DGMK dated February 16, 1978, the FAM’s administrative office is affiliated—in terms of organization, finances, and personnel—with the DGMK (German Scientific Society for Sustainable Energy Sources, Mobility, and Carbon Cycles, e.V.) in Hamburg.
Contact in the office
Dr. Richard Wicht
Head of the Standards Department | FAM Technical Committee on Liquid Fuels, Lubricants, and Related Products
Standardisation Work
The FAM is responsible for the development and maintenance of standards in the field of petroleum products and related products, i.e. for fuels, lubricants, special products and other bio-based fuels falling within this scope, mostly politically promoted, such as "biodiesel" or ethanol. The standardisation work comprises requirement standards with the associated test standards, basic standards and also other test methods that can be used more generally. Furthermore, existing standards must be adapted to the current state of the art and new standards must be developed according to current requirements, so that sufficiently reliable testing of biocomponents and their mixtures with fossil components can be conducted.
Standardization efforts are increasingly focused on the European (CEN) and international (ISO) levels. Further information on this topic can be found in the FAM Annual Report as well as in the monthly bulletins on standardization in EEK. In addition to maintaining the entire portfolio of standards, current tasks include the development, revision, and adoption of approximately 200 standards annually, as well as the withdrawal of standards that are no longer current and the replacement of national standards with European and international ones.
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