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http://dx.doi.org/10.12925/jkocs.2018.35.4.1073

Determination of fuel marker in petroleum products using GC-MS  

Youn, Ju Min (Research Institute of Petroleum Technology, Korea Petroleum Quality & Distribution Authority)
Doe, Jin Woo (Research Institute of Petroleum Technology, Korea Petroleum Quality & Distribution Authority)
Yim, Eui Soon (Research Institute of Petroleum Technology, Korea Petroleum Quality & Distribution Authority)
Lee, Jung Min (Research Institute of Petroleum Technology, Korea Petroleum Quality & Distribution Authority)
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Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology / v.35, no.4, 2018 , pp. 1073-1080 More about this Journal
Abstract
There are several types of petroleum products used for the fuel oil, according to their respective quality standards, grades and usage. Depending on the degree of oil tax rate by country, even the same petroleum products will have price gap. The illegal mixing of cheap petroleum products, which are subject to the lower tax rate, with relatively expensive transportation fuel causes problems such as tax evasion, environmental pollution and vehicle breakdown. In order to prevent illicit production and mixing of these different petroleum products, a small amount of markers are legally added to specific petroleum products. In Korea, markers are introduced and used to prevent illegal activity that kerosene used as fuel for house and commercial boiler are mixed with automotive diesel fuels, and marker contents are analyzed to use UV-Vis spectrophotometer and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). In this study, we have developed a method to qualitatively and quantitatively determine the marker added to petroleum products by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) without adding developing reagent or sample pre-treatments.
Keywords
Fuel marker; Unimark 1494DB; Petroleum product; GC-MS; Phenolphthalein;
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