Alternative method for determining API degrees of petroleum in contaminated soil by FTIR

A method was developed to determine °API from the relative abundance of polar and aliphatic functional groups as measured by FTIR. Twenty-two samples of petroleum were collected from the southern region of Mexico and analyzed by FTIR using an Attenuated Total Reflectance (ATR) accessory. API gravity...

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Main Authors: F.J. Guzmán-Osorio, R.H. Adams, V.I. Domínguez-Rodríguez, C.E. Lobato-García, A. Guerrero-Peña, J.R. Barajas-Hernández, E. Baltierra-Trejo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute 2020-03-01
Series:Egyptian Journal of Petroleum
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110062119302624
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