Optical fiber sensor for gasoline blend quality control

Rosane Falate; E. Cacao Jr.; Marcia Muller; Hypolito Jose Kalinowski; Jose Luis Fabris

doi:10.1117/12.590662

21 October 2004 Optical fiber sensor for gasoline blend quality control

Rosane Falate, E. Cacao Jr., Marcia Muller, Hypolito Jose Kalinowski, Jose Luis Fabris

Proceedings Volume 5622, 5th Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics and 8th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Their Applications; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.590662
Event: 5th Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics and 8th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Their Applications, 2004, Porlamar, Venezuela

Abstract

This work shows the use of a long period grating to analyze the quality of a commercial gasoline blend. Samples with different single and double solvent proportions are characterized. It is shown that the addition of controlled amounts of a standard solvent allows differentiating legal blends from tampered blends. With the proper choice of that solvent, it is possible to shift the LPG operation towards a higher sensitivity range, and even samples that deviate little from the legal gasoline blend can be identified.

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Rosane Falate, E. Cacao Jr., Marcia Muller, Hypolito Jose Kalinowski, and Jose Luis Fabris "Optical fiber sensor for gasoline blend quality control", Proc. SPIE 5622, 5th Iberoamerican Meeting on Optics and 8th Latin American Meeting on Optics, Lasers, and Their Applications, (21 October 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.590662

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