Ultrafast Time-of-Flight Method of Gasoline Contamination Detection Down to ppm Levels by Means of Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy - CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique
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Ultrafast Time-of-Flight Method of Gasoline Contamination Detection Down to ppm Levels by Means of Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy

Kamil Stelmaszczyk
Ewelina Karpierz-Marczewska
Valeri Mikhnev
  • Function : Author
Grzegorz Cywinski
Thomas Skotnicki
  • Function : Author
Wojciech Knap

Abstract

In this article, we present the possibility of using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy to detect trace, ppm-level (%wt.) concentrations of admixtures in 95-octane lead-free gasoline in straightforward time-of-flight (pulse-delay) measurements performed directly in the liquid. The method was tested on samples containing 75–0.0125% of isopropanol and 0.3–0.0250% of water. The detection limits for isopropanol and water content were determined to be 125 ppm and 250 ppm, respectively, approaching the limits of much more complicated and time-consuming methods (like spectroscopy of the vapor phase). The measured pulse delays were compared with theoretical calculations using the modified Gladstone-Dale mixing rule for the solutions. The comparison demonstrated good agreement for gasoline-alcohol mixtures and large discrepancies for gasoline-water mixtures, suggesting that gasoline-water mixtures cannot be considered idealized binary mixtures. Our results clearly show that the pulse time delay measurement by THz-TDS is a fast and sensitive method of gasoline contamination detection and, as such, can be easily integrated with industrial online real-time quality control applications.

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hal-04840498 , version 1 (16-12-2024)

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Kamil Stelmaszczyk, Ewelina Karpierz-Marczewska, Valeri Mikhnev, Grzegorz Cywinski, Thomas Skotnicki, et al.. Ultrafast Time-of-Flight Method of Gasoline Contamination Detection Down to ppm Levels by Means of Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy. Applied Sciences, 2022, 12 (3), pp.1629. ⟨10.3390/app12031629⟩. ⟨hal-04840498⟩
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