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Our Reference Materials can be used to validate your instruments and to evaluate analyst performance.
Your laboratory will benefit from validated and controlled samples that have been tested for homogeneity and stability. Plus you’ll receive clear and concise certificates of analysis with full data on how the Accepted Reference Values (ARV) were established. Use the certificates of analysis for traceability purposes as well as guidance for establishing tolerance levels for testing validation.
Choose from a wide selection of product matrices and test methods for various properties at multiple levels, ensuring you receive the best reference materials to meet your laboratory’s quality assurance needs.
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ASTM Reference Materials are an excellent resource to help you comply with US EPA fuels regulations under 40 CFR 1090. We offer a variety of reference materials, valid as check standards per ASTM D6299, to support your laboratory’s ongoing precision and accuracy demonstration per 40 CFR 1090.1375. Implementing reference materials with reliable accepted reference values allows you to confirm compliance in real-time, reducing the risk and liability of unqualified data being reported to customers and agencies. Our available options provide ARVs in the fuel matrices being tested across a wide range of results, including those at or slightly below the applicable standards, to satisfy 40 CFR 1090.1375(c)(2):
Demonstrate control and build confidence by implementing ASTM’s combustion characteristic reference materials as part of your QC program. Our selection of combustion characteristic reference materials are ideal for ensuring and monitoring the validity of results to customers and accrediting bodies. Octane and Cetane reference materials are available in typical finished gasoline and diesel product matrices. Octane Number reference materials are available with reliable ARVs across the range from subgrade to midgrade including RON from 85 to 94 and MON 79 to 87. Cetane Number and Derived Cetane Number reference materials are available from 40 to 52.
Validate your compositional gas chromatography instrumentation and methodology with ASTM’s composition reference materials. Shipped in packages of 8 x 5-mL ampoules, and in gasoline or naphtha matrices, our multi-ARV reference materials are a reliable way to confirm precision and accuracy of hydrocarbon group reporting and performance. Reference materials are available with ARVs for:
ASTM offers a wide selection of reference materials to validate distillation measurement systems using atmospheric, vacuum, micro, simulated, and high-temperature simulated methodologies. Our distillation reference materials are in sample matrices similar to those your laboratory tests, rather than synthetic blends of multiple pure components, offering confidence for real-world testing of wide boiling ranges. Confirm instrument performance and analyst technique with our catalog of reference materials with ARVs covering the boiling range of typical petroleum and refined products, and the narrow boiling range of high purity chemicals:
Introduce highly accurate reference materials with very low uncertainty estimates into your quality system to validate cold flow property measurement systems. ASTM’s reference materials for cloud point, pour point, cold filter plugging point, and freeze point offer robust ARVs across the wide range of flow temperatures for major petroleum products and popular manual and automated methods:
ASTM’s reference materials for jet fuel are available for hard-to-find parameters, with accepted reference values in ranges typical of the fuel tested in commercial laboratories. Our jet fuel reference materials come with reliable ARVs and low estimated uncertainties based on test results from labs across the globe. Key jet fuel reference materials we offer are: