Most jet aircraft have heated fuel tanks and or use PRIST.
The fuel control units are heated by engine oil or electric
elements so the screens stay ice free.


"Morgans" wrote in message
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| "Matt Whiting" wrote
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| If jet fuel is full of water, how do you get it to burn?
When I took
| chemistry, hydrocarbon fuels contained .... drum roll
please ... carbon
| and hydrogen. No water of any level of significance.
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| Jet fuel, kerosene, diesel fuel, are all hygroscopic.
That means that they
| have an affinity for absorbing water. Great amounts of
it. If they absorb
| enough, then it will not burn.
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| This is one reason why you don't have to sump jet fueled
airplane's tanks.
| There will be no separate water to drain.
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| I do take some deference to Jim's saying that jet fuel
contains significant
| amounts of water. They try real hard to keep jet fuel
dry, because it they
| didn't, it would start to freeze out, while in the fuel,
at altitude.
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| Jim in NC
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