GB2466802A - Measuring low levels of contaminants in fuels using Fourier Transform Infra red spectroscopy with dynamic reference analysis - Google Patents
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Abstract
A process, and a sample handling system, used in conjunction with a mid infra red Fourier Transform Infra red (FTIR) spectrometer with a single or dual through flow cell, to enable the accurate measurement of specific contaminants and additives/components in fluids. The system creates its own continuous reference spectra after pumping the sample through a solid phase sorbent selected to absorb the contaminant or additive/component to be measured. The output of the sorbent is initially free of specific contaminants and/or additives/components. This output changes if specific contaminants and/or additives/components breakthrough the sorbent. The continuous dynamic reference spectra are compared with the spectrum from the sample thus enabling the required measurement to be made. The process eliminates the requirement for solvent washing or solvent elution, thus simplifying the process and avoiding the use of potentially hazardous chemicals. The process and system have particular application in measuring trace amounts of biodiesel (FAME), in aviation turbine fuels to high precision using an apparatus that can easily be used by non specialist staff at many points in the supply chain.
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Sampling apparatus and process for measuring low levels of contaminants, or additives/components, in fuels using FTIR with dynamic reference analysis
Description
In many industries, such as petroleum and especially when fuels are involved, there is often a requirement to quickly and frequently measure the presence of a known contaminant, an additive or component.
These fuels are made to strict specifications but on the way to their end use they pass through various multiproduct pipelines, storage containers and filtration systems. Allowed additives and/or components may be added initially or later in the supply chain. Finally the fuel may be commingled with other fuels of the same specification but from a different manufacturer or batch.
There are many analytical techniques available to make these measurements, however these are very costly, can be time consuming and require a trained chemist, thus making tests at a terminal, pipeline, fuel farm or depot not reasonably possible.
One technique, using the Fourier Transform lnfra red (FTIR) spectrometer, is easy to use and can provide a quick chemical fingerprint(spectrum) of a sample being analysed. The sample test is non-destructive and only requires a small sample. Unknown substances such as contaminants or additives/components are identified by comparison of the spectrum with reference spectra. Bespoke software presents the result of the analysis to the operator.
The ultimate performance of the FTIR in measuring the amount of contamination or additive present is therefore limited by knowledge of the unadulterated sample. In some industries, such as the petroleum industry, fluids are manufactured to a specification but will have a different spectrum, manufacturer to manufacturer or even batch to batch. For the detection of large levels of contaminants or additives a "typical" reference spectrum may be adequate, however accurate measurements, from low percentages down to ppm or mg/kg levels, need much better reference spectra. At point of use it will not be possible to have accurate reference spectra due to the use of multiproduct pipelines, commingling, use of additives and/or components, transport and storage practices.
Solid phase extraction is a technique used to concentrate contaminants or additives/components of interest up to a level that is required for further processing or measurements. The sample passed through a sorbant is usually discarded, and a solvent with more affinity to this contaminant or additive/component is used to recover the contaminant or additive/component of interest from the sorbant. This contaminant or additive/components, and often other additives with a similar spectrum, are then measured using an FTIR spectrometer by comparing the spectrum of the contaminant or additive/component with the solvent used. The disadvantage with this concept is the complexity of the sample handling system, the health and safety aspects of use and evaporation of solvents and the possibility of including interferences, such as the additives, in the measurement.
The invention eliminates the need for solvents and creates dynamic reference spectra for comparison against the sample spectrum thus allowing identification and level of the contaminant, additive/component to be measured.
An FTIR with a single or dual through flow cell is used in conjunction with a sample handling system and software to compare the sample and reference spectra, and make the required measurements. The use of a dual through flow cell allows spectra comparisons in parallel as against in series for the single through flow cell. For the single cell the spectrum of the sample is measured before the reference, although the reverse order is feasible.
The invention is a process and sample handling system to enable the accurate measurement of specific contaminants and additives/components in fluids. It uses an FTIR to compare the sample's spectrum with the spectrum of the fluid after it is pumped through a solid phase sorbent during the test cycle. It essentially creates a dynamic reference spectrum for the sample being tested, by selectively (and temporarily for some additives) removing the contamination and/or additive/component using a solid phase sorbent (from 100% absorbance to breakthrough during the test cycle) and comparing the resulting dynamically changing FTIR spectrum with the spectrum of the sample, in realtime, using a single or dual through flow FTIR cell. The real time processing of the sample during the test cycle allows the selective identification of additives and their elimination as potential interferences if required. The invention also encompasses a process that has eliminated the requirement for solvent washing or solvent elution, thus simplifying the process and avoiding the use of potentially hazardous chemicals.
The invention results from the requirement to measure trace amounts of biodiesel (FAME Fatty Acid Methyl Esters) in aviation turbine fuels to high precision at levels down to 30 mg/kg or ppm using an apparatus that could easily be used at many points in the supply chain.
Operational sequence for measuring a contaminant i) The sample is pumped or drawn from the sample container through the FTIR flow cell to flush and clean the pipework and the through flow cell.
ii) The sample is pumped or drawn from the sample container through the FTIR flow cell, the flow of the sample is stopped and its FTIR spectrum measured and recorded.
iii) The sample is pumped or drawn from the sample container through a cartridge containing a specifically selected sorbent. The output from the cartridge (reference sample) is passed through the FTIR flow cell. The flow of the reference sample is stopped at predetermined intervals so that a set of spectra from the FTIR can be recorded.
iv) The spectra change as the reference sample replaces the sample in the flow cell and as some known interferences (additives and components) breakthrough the sorbent v) The set of dynamic reference spectra are compared with the sample spectra.
vi) A reference spectrum is then chosen when interferences are judged to have broken through the sorbent and are part of the spectrum, but before the contaminant(or additive/component) to be measured breaks through.
vii) The comparison between the sample and chosen reference spectrum is then used to measure and report the level of contamination.
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