Standard Test Method for Nitrogen in Petroleum and Petroleum Products by Boat-Inlet Chemiluminescence

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1.1 This test method covers the determination of nitrogen in liquid hydrocarbons, including petroleum process streams and lubricating oils in the concentration range from 40 to 10 000 μg/g nitrogen. For light hydrocarbons containing less than 100 μg/g nitrogen, Test Method D 4629 can be more appropriate.
1.2 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as the standard. The values given in parentheses are for information only.
1.3 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use. Specific hazard statements are given in Section 6, 7.1, 8.2, and 8.2.2.

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Designation: D 5762 – 98 An American National Standard
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Reprinted from the Annual Book of ASTM Standards. Copyright ASTM
Standard Test Method for
Nitrogen in Petroleum and Petroleum Products by Boat-Inlet
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Chemiluminescence
This standard is issued under the fixed designation D 5762; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (e) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
1. Scope 4. Significance and Use
1.1 This test method covers the determination of nitrogen in 4.1 Many nitrogen compounds can contaminate refinery
liquid hydrocarbons, including petroleum process streams and catalysts. They tend to be the most difficult class of compounds
lubricating oils in the concentration range from 40 to 10 000 to hydrogenate, so the nitrogen content remaining in the
μg/g nitrogen. For light hydrocarbons containing less than 100 product of a hydrotreator is a measure of the effectiveness of
μg/g nitrogen, Test Method D 4629 can be more appropriate. the hydrotreating process. In lubricating oils the concentration
1.2 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as the of nitrogen is a measure of the presence of nitrogen containing
standard. The values given in parentheses are for information additives. This test method is intended for use in plant control
only. and in research.
1.3 This standard does not purport to address all of the
5. Apparatus
safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the
responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appro- 5.1 Boat Inlet System, capable of being sealed to the inlet of
the combustion tube and swept with inert gas. The boats are
priate safety and health practices and determine the applica-
bility of regulatory limitations prior to use. fabricated from platinum or quartz. To aid quantitative liquid
injection, add a small piece of quartz wool to the boat. The boat
2. Referenced Documents
drive mechanism should be able to fully insert the boat into the
2.1 ASTM Standards: furnace tube inlet section. A drive mechanism that advances
D 4052 Test Method for Density and Relative Density of and withdraws the sample boat into and out of the furnace at a
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Liquids by Digital Density Meter controlled and repeatable rate is required.
D 4057 Practice for Manual Sampling of Petroleum and 5.2 Chemiluminescence Detector, capable of measuring
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Petroleum Products light emitted from the reaction between nitric oxide and ozone,
D 4177 Practice for Automatic Sampling of Petroleum and and containing a variable attenuation amplifier, integrator, and
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Petroleum Products readout.
D 4629 Test Method for Trace Nitrogen in Liquid Petro- 5.3 Combustion Tube, fabricated from quartz. The inlet end
leum Hydrocarbons by Syringe/Inlet Oxidative Combus- of the tube shall be large enough to accept the sample boat and
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tion and Chemiluminescence Detection to have side arms for introduction of oxygen and inert gas. The
construction is such that the carrier gases sweep the inlet zone
3. Summary of Test Method
transporting all of the volatilized sample into a high-
3.1 A hydrocarbon sample is placed on a sample boat at
temperature oxidation zone. The oxidation section should be
room temperature. The sample and boat are advanced into a large enough to ensure complete oxidation of the sample.
high-temperature combustion tube where the nitrogen is oxi-
Combustion tubes recommended for the two furnaces in 5.5.1
dized to nitric oxide (NO) in an oxygen atmosphere. The NO and 5.5.2 are described in 5.3.1 and 5.3.2. Other configurations
contacts ozone and is converted to excited nitrogen dioxide
are acceptable if precision and bias are not degraded.
(NO ). The light emitted as the excited NO decays is detected 5.3.1 Quartz combustion tube for use with the single-zone
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by a photomultiplier tube, and the resulting signal is a measure
furnace is illustrated in Fig. 1. A water-jacket around the inlet
of the nitrogen contained in the sample. section can be used to cool the boat prior to sample injection.
5.3.2 Quartz combustion tube for use with the two-zone
furnace is illustrated in Fig. 2. Fig. 3 illustrates a combustion
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tube for a two-zone furnace that is equipped with the ability to
This test method is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee D-2 on
Petroleum Products and Lubricants and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee switch to a pure oxygen carrier gas flow after the boat has been
D02.03 on Elemental Analysis.
fully extended into the furnace (consult the instrument manual
Current edition approved Dec. 10, 1998. Published Februar
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