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The development of a photoacoustic Instrument for the monitoring of oil and other hydrocarbons in water.
  The present methods for the detection of oil in discharge water are based either on chemical analysis of intermittent samples or bypass pipelines with instrumentation to detect either dissolved or dispersed hydrocarbons by a variety of optical techniques including absorption, scattering and fluorescence. However, test have shown that no single instruments entirely meets either present needs or satisfies the requirements of the future more stringent legislation which may limit total hydrocarbon content to 30 ppm or even less. Hence, in this paper, a detector is devised which can detect both dissolved and dispersed oil products, has a high immunity to scattering and can operate in-line and harsh environments with a detection sensitivity of a few ppm throughout a wide range of operations.

  • Type:

    Article

  • Date:

    30 November 1995

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    Institute of Petroleum

  • ISSN:

    0020-3076

  • Library of Congress:

    TN Mining engineering. Metallurgy

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    622 Mining & related operations

Citation

Mackenzie, H. & Binnie, D. (1995). The development of a photoacoustic Instrument for the monitoring of oil and other hydrocarbons in water. Petroleum review. 49, 555-557. ISSN 0020-3076

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Keywords

water contamination; oil product waste;

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