06/02068 Natural gas domestic market development for total elimination of routine flares in Nigeria's upstream petroleum operations: Sonibare, J. A. and Akeredolu, F. A. Energy Policy, 2006, 34, (6), 743–753.
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2006
- Weight
- 169 KB
- Volume
- 47
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0140-6701
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✦ Synopsis
levels of sulfur simply by distillation of the jet fuel into low-boiling and high-boiling fractions. A multi-element simulated distillation procedure according to ASTM D-2887, standard test method for boiling range distribution of petroleum fractions by gas chromatography, was coupled with atomic emission detection (GC-AED) and was used to estimate the sulfur concentration in various fractions of jet fuel, namely 20, 50, and 60%. The estimations of sulfur concentration were verified by comparing them to analysed sulfur concentrations in several fractions of physical distillations of the jet fuels according to a modified ASTM D-86, standard test method for distillation of petroleum products at atmospheric pressure. Sulfur analyses showed that for all fuels analysed, the initial 20% boiling fraction of the fuel contained no more than approximately 5% of the total sulfur concentration. The initial 50% boiling fraction of the fuel contained no more than 25% of the total sulfur concentration, and in most cases contained significantly less (8-16%). The total concentration of sulfur in the jet fuels tested ranged from 260 to 1380 mg/g, and there did not appear to be a direct relationship between total sulfur concentration and percentage of sulfur in each jet fuel boiling fraction.