Petroleum Testing

Through our global network of testing experts and analytical equipment including

chromatography (HPLC, GC, GC/MS) and atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS, GFA,

FIAS), Our goal is to provide test services as efficiently as possible to maximize our

customers' profits. For more information about our services, contact one of our experts

today.

The large and complex petroleum industry is essential for the economy nowadays, it is

difficult for a country to run smoothly without petroleum. Petroleum is the raw material that

will ultimately provide power for our vehicles, roads paving, and plastics supply for

consumer usage etc. When petroleum is extracted from underground, it is called crude oil.

Crude oil is a complex mixture with thousands of compounds that formed from plants and

animals millions of years ago. Crude oil is sent to the fractional distillation refinery to

process further. Fractional distillation, which involves separating crude oil into many

fractions based on their boiling points differences, can provide gasoline, diesel fuel,

heating oil, jet fuel, petroleum feedstocks, waxes, lubricating oils, asphalt and other

products.

Alfa Chemistry supports the entire range of petroleum products: crude oil, petroleum feed

stocks, refined petroleum products, and waste oil. There are hundreds of tests developed

on these products.
Alfa Chemistry's testing services for petroleum
include:
Service Items

API gravity, density, relative density of crude oil; sediment content; sulfur co
Crude Oil and Petroleum Feedstock
species detection, mercaptan sulfur content; carbon residue; chloride and chlo

Hydrogen sulfide analysis; metal analysis; methanol content; pour point, va

Crude Oil Distillation
salt content; viscosity; wax content; water content

Petroleum Refined Product Testing for Fuel purity and quality; fuel contamination; fuel additives; physical proper
Various Fuels energy value; bacteria in fuel tanks and systems; trace composition analys

Distillation, cut back, ductility, flash point, heavy oil characterization

Asphalt asphalt penetration, quinoline insoluble, relative density, smoke point, asph
point, spot test, viscosity, water content and so on.

The percent of BSW, ash, flash point, pour point, clouding point, cetane No.,
waste oil
corrosion, BTU, PCB, density, halogen, sulfur, metals and viscosity and so

Petroleum test guidance, standards and

specifications

1. ISO 3734: 1997 -- Determination of water and sediment in residual fuel oils

2. ISO 4264: 2018 -- Calculation of cetane index of middle-distillate fuels

3. ISO 2207: 1980 Petroleum waxes -- Determination of congealing point

4. ISO 20815: 2018 Petroleum industries -- Production assurance

5. ISO 2176: 1995 -- Lubricating grease -- Determination of dropping point

6. ISO 5165: 2017 -- Determination of the ignition quality of diesel fuels

7. ASTM D4057 -- Standard practice for manual sampling of petroleum products

8. ASTM D6560-17 Standard test method for determination of asphaltenes

9. ASTM D1298-12b(2017) Method for density, relative density, or API gravity

10. ASTM D287-12b Standard test method for API gravity of petroleum products

11. ASTM D4177 Standard practice for automatic sampling of petroleum products

12. UOP1016 - 17 Ash from petroleum products by microwave

13. ASTM D482-13 Standard test method for ash from petroleum products