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http://dx.doi.org/10.9725/kts.2021.37.6.232

Analysis of Components to Determine Illegal Premium Gasoline  

Lim, Young-Kwan (Northern office of Capital Region, Korea Petroleum Quality & Distribution Authority)
Kang, Byung-Seok (Northern office of Capital Region, Korea Petroleum Quality & Distribution Authority)
Lee, Bo-O-Mi (Northern office of Capital Region, Korea Petroleum Quality & Distribution Authority)
Park, So-Hwi (Northern office of Capital Region, Korea Petroleum Quality & Distribution Authority)
Park, Jang-Min (Dept. of Testing and Analysis, Korea Petroleum Quality & Distribution Authority)
Go, Young-Hoon (Dept. of Testing and Analysis, Korea Petroleum Quality & Distribution Authority)
Kim, Seung-Tae (Yeongnam Regional office, Korea Petroleum Quality & Distribution Authority)
Kang, Dea-Hyuk (Northern office of Capital Region, Korea Petroleum Quality & Distribution Authority)
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Tribology and Lubricants / v.37, no.6, 2021 , pp. 232-239 More about this Journal
Abstract
Petroleum is the most consumed energy source in Korea with a usage rate of 38.7% among the available primary energy sources. The price of liquid petroleum products in Korea includes taxes such as transportation·environment·energy tax. Thus, illegal production and distribution of liquid petroleum is widespread because of its huge price difference from that of the normal product and its tax-free nature. Generally, the illegal petroleum product is produced by mixing liquid petroleum with other similar petroleum alternatives. The two kinds of gasoline, common gasoline and premium gasoline, are being distributed in Korea. The premium gasoline is often adulterated with cheaper common gasoline that lowers the octane number of gasoline. It is possible to distinguish them with their color difference, green and yellow for different grade gasoline. However, when small volume of common gasoline is added to premium gasoline, it is difficult to determine whether premium gasoline contained common grade or not. In this study, we inspect gasoline, which is illegally produced by mixing common gasoline to premium gasoline. When the ratio of mixing common gasoline is increased, premium gasoline shows decreasing absorbance at 600 nm and 650 nm under UV-Vis spectrometer. Moreover, the detected intensity (mV·s) of green dye in high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was decreased by common gasoline under 0.99 correlation value. The more the common gasoline is mixed, the more olefin and naphthene are detected by gas chromatography. In addition, trimethyl pentane as octane improver, paraffin and toluene are decreased by common gasoline mixing. The findings of this study suggests that illegal petroleum can be identified by analysis of components and simulated samples.
Keywords
illegal gasoline; premium gasoline; common gasoline; dye; octane number;
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