Today’s fuels cover a wide range of materials from gasoline and diesel as automotive fuels to residual fuel oil, which is used, for example, in marine engines. Worldwide, there are many specifications for these materials, especially for the sulfur content. In some areas of the world, lead as a gasoline additive is currently being phased out. Elemental analysis of lead or potassium and manganese (from lead replacement additives) can support monitoring of this phasing out. Elements like nickel, vanadium and iron in residual fuel oil and catalyst fines like aluminum and silicon in fuel oil are additional parameters of interest.

SPECTRO’s technology allows the industry to measure at sub 10-15 ppm levels of sulfur in fuels to guarantee compliance with federal government agency requirements. The highly developed technology at SPECTRO also enables the measurement of low levels of metal elements, such as potassium, manganese, aluminum, silicon, nickel, vanadium and iron, to ensure that the fuels from “today and the future” continue to be optimized as to engine emission as well as providing trouble-free motoring.

With a complete range of Energy Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence (ED-XRF) and Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission (ICP-OES) Spectrometers, SPECTRO’s unique solutions for at-line and laboratory elemental analysis are capable of meeting the most demanding product specification testing requirements.

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