IP 469/01

(2006)

Determination of saturated, aromatic and polar compounds

in petroleum products by thin layer chromatography and
flame ionization detection

This standard does not purport to address all of the safety problems associated with its use. It is the responsibility
of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability
of regulatory limitations prior to use.

1 Scope references, subsequent amendments to, or

revisions of, any of these publications do not
This standard specifies a procedure for the apply. However, parties to agreements based on
determination of saturated, aromatic and polar this standard are encouraged to investigate the
compounds in petroleum products and feedstocks possibility of applying the most recent editions of
having an atmospheric boiling point of 300 EC the normative documents indicated. For undated
minimum at 5 % recovered sample. The standard references, the latest edition of the normative
classifies the output into four compound-types document referenced applies.
designated as saturates, aromatics, polars (I) and
polars (II) and quantifies these. The test method ISO 3170, Petroleum liquids — Manual sampling.
is applicable to both distillate products and
feedstocks and those containing residues from IP 367, Petroleum products — Determination and
processing. A broad chemical compound type application of precision data in relation to methods
breakdown is increasingly being sought as a of test.
precursor to more detailed analysis for (/ ISO 4259).
environmental considerations.
3 Definitions
NOTE 1 Product/feedstock types that are typical of the
applicable range of this standard include vacuum gas For the purposes of this standard, the following
oils, lubricating oil base stocks, aromatic extracts definitions apply:
(process oils), residual fuels, feedstocks and
components from both atmospheric and vacuum
3.1
processing, and bitumen.
saturates
compounds that migrate during the heptane
This standard is based on the availability of a
solvent development stage of this standard to an
single commercial instrument, the Iatroscan
Rf value equal to or above 0,6.
TLC/FID AnalyzerTM, but does not preclude other
instruments that can be demonstrated to give the
3.2
same compound-type breakdown with equal or
aromatics
better precision and accuracy. The quoted
compounds that, in the main, migrate to an Rf
precision was obtained only on this one
value below 0,6 in the heptane development
instrument type.
stage, and migrate at, or close to, the solvent
front during elution with 80:20 toluene:heptane by
2 Normative references volume.
The following normative documents contain 3.3
provisions which, through reference in this text, polars (I)
constitute provisions of this standard. For dated compounds that, in the main, are not eluted by

469.1

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