Aircraft fuel system contamination detector

A fuel tank system, comprising:

• a fuel tank;
• and
• a contamination detection system associated with the fuel tank, the contamination detection system comprising:
• source device configured to emit light into the fuel tank;
• a collection device configured to capture scattered light resulting from the emitted light interacting with fuel in the fuel tank and provide an optical signal corresponding to the captured scattered light;
• an optical detection device configured to convert the optical signal to an electronic signal representative of properties of the captured scattered light, wherein the properties comprise a wavelength and an intensity value of one or more portions of the captured scattered light;
• a user interface;
• and
• a computing device configured to generate, based on the electronic signal, data comprising an indication of:
• a presence or absence of one or more contaminants comprised in the fuel tank;
• a type of the one or more contaminants;
• first location information of the fuel with respect to at least one of:
• a volume of the fuel tank;
• the one or more contaminants;
• and
• one or more components of the fuel tank;
• and
• second location information of the one or more contaminants with respect to at least one of:
• the volume of the fuel tank;
• the fuel;
• and
• the one or more components of the fuel tank,
• wherein the contamination detection system is configured to display a multidimensional visualization of the fuel tank, the fuel, and the one or more contaminants, including respective spatial locations of the fuel and the one or more contaminants within the fuel tank, via the user interface, based on the data generated by the computing device.