Mineral oils: processes and products – Refining – Sulfur removal
Patent
1992-09-08
1994-09-20
Myers, Helane
Mineral oils: processes and products
Refining
Sulfur removal
208 12, 208177, 208DIG1, 436 55, C10G 4500
Patent
active
053486455
ABSTRACT:
Mid-distillate hydrocarbon fuels, preferably having initial boiling points above 350.degree. F., are separated e.g. by prep-HPLC into non-aromatic and aromatic fractions which are used to set 0% aromatics (the non-aromatics) and 100% aromatics (the aromatics) on an NIR spectrophotometer. From NIR aromatic band absorbances of unknown samples, their percent aromatics is determined using this two-point calibration and the Beer-Lambert equation. Preferred NIR bands of 1650-1700 and 2120-2256 exhibit excellent correlation with aromatics content. Also similar techniques measure sulfur through correlation with the benzothiophenic band and its overtones and combination bands, or possibly directly.
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patent: 5062976 (1991-11-01), Audeh
patent: 5145785 (1992-09-01), Maggard
patent: 5171691 (1992-12-01), Kline et al.
Maggard Steven M.
Welch William T.
Ashland Oil Inc.
Myers Helane
Willson, Jr. Richard C.
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