On-line Mass Spectrometry of Fuel Oil

Abstract

An outline of online data processing system of mass spectrometer and its application to the analysis of fuel oil are reviewed.
On the system the hardware and software are described, and on the analysis of fuel oil it is explained the type analysis which apply to saturate hydrocarbons, aromatic hydrocarbons, sulfur compounds, nitrogen compounds and organic acids in gasoline, kerosene, gas oil and crude oil. Low energy ionization mathod and the analysis of aromatic fractions of petroleum distillates used high resoltution mass spectrometer are also explained.