Elemental Analysis of Fuels and Lubricants: Recent Advances and Future Prospects
Nadkarni RAK
Elemental analysis plays a vital role in product manufacturing and quality characterization in many sectors of all industries. This publication, Elemental Analysis of Fuels and Lubricants: Recent Advances and Future
Prospects, contains selected papers presented at the symposium of the same name held in December of 2004. The symposium was sponsored by Committee D02 on Petroleum Products and Lubricants.
Research divisions in both industry and academia continue devising new ways of lowering the elemental detection limits so that even the minutest amounts of elements in products could be determined in as accurate and precise a fashion as possible. The objective of the symposium was to acquaint the readers with the latest advances in the field of elemental analysis and to focus on what avenues of future research to explore in this area. The subjects included are various elemental analysis techniques such as atomic absorption spectrometry, inductively coupled plasma emission and mass spectrometry, isotope dilution mass spectrometry, X-ray fluorescence, ion chromatography, hetero-atom microanalysis, reference materials, and other subjects related to matrices such as petroleum products, lubricating oils and additives, crude oils, used oils, catalysts,
Specific topics addressed in the papers in this publication include:
- quality management
- optics
- rapid sulfur analysis
- thermal oxidation
- pyrolysis
- sulfur chemiluminescence detection (SCD)
- low thermal mass gas chromatography (LTMGC)
- mercury
- gas chromatography
- atomic emission detection
- hetero-atom speciation
- oxidative combustion
- sample preparation
- Rotrode Filter Spectroscopy (RFS)
Purchase this STP to learn the current state-of-the art and future research trends in the field of elemental analysis in the oil industry. Most modern techniques used in the field are represented in the publication.