Silica Gel For ASTM D1319-02A and ISO 3037

Our Silica Gel #51600 is a high purity silica and is manufactured to conform to the specifications of ASTM D1319-02a Test Method for Hydrocarbon Types in Liquid Petroleum Products by Fluorescent Indicator Adsorption & ISO 3037 Liquid Petroleum Products-Determination of Hydrocarbon Types-Fluorescent Indicator Adsorption Method. Sorbtech Silica Gel #51600 can be used in place of W.R. Grace’s product (Code 923.)

See table in Specifications Tab.

This method covers the determination of hydrocarbon types over the concentration ranges from 5 to 99 volume % aromatics, 0.3 to 55 volume % olefins, and 1 to 95 volume % saturates in petroleum fractions that distill below 315° C. This test method may apply to concentrations outside these ranges, but the precision has not been determined. Samples containing dark-colored components that interfere in reading the chromatographic bands cannot be analyzed.

The determination of the total volume percent [% (V/V)] of saturates, olefins, and aromatics in petroleum fractions is important in characterizing the quality of petroleum fractions as gasoline blending components and as feeds to catalytic reforming processes, and in characterizing petroleum fractions and products from catalytic reforming and from thermal and catalytic cracking as blending components for motor and aviation fuels. This information is also important as a measure of the quality of aviation turbine fuels.