ASTM D270-65(1980)
(Test Method)Methods of Sampling Petroleum and Petroleum Products (Withdrawn 1982)
Methods of Sampling Petroleum and Petroleum Products (Withdrawn 1982)
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American National standard 21 1.33-1966
Designaion: D 270 - 65 (Reapproved 1980)
American National Standards Institute
Method 8001-Federal Test Method
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Reorinted from the Annual Book of ASTM Standards. CopyrightASTM
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Standard Method of
SAMPLING PETROLEUM AND PETROLEUM
PR ODU CTS'
This Standard is issued under the fixed designation D 270; the number immediately following the designaiion indicates the
year oforiginal adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last
rrapproval. This is also a standard of the American Petroleum Institute issued under the fixed designation API 2546.
This method was adopted as a ioini ASTM-API standard in 1965.
1. Scope sample container, and the sampling procedure
that is to be used. A summary of the sampling
1.1 This method covers procedures for ob-
procedures and their application is presented
taining representative samples of stocks or
in Table I. Each procedure is suitable for
shipments of crude petroleum and petroleum
sampling a number of specific materials under
products, except electrical insulating oils, and
definite storage, transportation, or container
butane, propane, and other petroleum prod-
conditions. The basic principle of each proce-
ucts that are gases at atmospheric tempera-
dure is to obtain a sample or a composite of
ture and pressure.
several samples in such manner and from
NOTE I-The procedures described in this
such locations in the tank or other container
method may also find application in sampling most
noncorrosive liquid industrial chemicals. that the sample or composite will be truly
NOTE 2-The procedure for sampling liquefied
representative of the petroleum or petroleum
petroleum gases is described in ASTM Method D-
product.
1265. Sampling Liquefied Petroleum (LP) Gases.*
the procedure for sampling electrical insulating oils
3. Description of Terms
in ASTM Method D 923. Sampling Electrical Insu-
king Liquids3 and the procedure for sampling
3.1 Average Sample is one that consists of
natural gas in ASTM Method D 1145. Sampling
proportionate parts from all sections of the
Natural Gas.'
NOTE 3-The values stated in US. customary
container.
units are to be regarded as the standard. Metric
3.2 All-Levels Sample is one obtained by
equivalents have been rationalized whcre tolerances
submerging a stoppered beaker or bottle to a
are considered non-critical.
point as near as possible to the draw-off level.
2. Summary of Method
then opening the sampler and raising it at a
rate such that it is about three-fourths full
2.1 Samples of petroleum and petroleurn
(maximum 85 percent) as it emerges from the
products are examined by various methods of
liquid. An all-levels sample is not necessarily
test for the determination of physical and
an average sample because the tank volume
chemical characteristics. It is accordingly nec-
essary that the samples be truly representative
'Th¡!. method is under the iurisdiction of ASTM Com-
of the petroleum or petroleum products in mittee D-2 on Petroleum Product?, and Lubricants and ihr
API Central Committee on Petroleum Measurement.
question. The precautions required to ensure
Currcni edition effective Aup. 31. 1965. 0rigin;iIly is-
the representative character of the samples sued 1927. Replace!. D 270 61.
In 1965. this method was rewritien CI\ it joint meihod with
are numerous and depend upon the type of
[he American Petr
material being sampled. the tank, carrier,
ASTM und API methods for sampling.
'Annual Bod riI'A.STM Stnndard.~. Part 23. .
container or line from which the sample is
a Annual Bid u1 ASTM Srandurds. l'art JO.
being obtained, the type and cleanliness of the
'Annual Bod olASTM .Srar~dur~l~. Part ?h.
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used in sampli etroleum products and is a
may not be proportional-to the depth and
blend of the r. middle,'and lower sam-
because the operator may not be able to raise
the sampler at the variable rate required for ples. For a % k of uniform'cróss section:
such as an upright cylindrical tank, the blend
proportionate filling. The rate of filling is
consists of equal parts of the three samples.
proportional to the square root of the depth
For a horizontal cylindrical tank, the blend
of immersion.
consists of the three samples in the propor-
NOTE 4-The tube sampling procedure. Section
22, may be used to obtain an all-levels sample from
tions shown in Table 2.
a barrel or drum.
3.15 Multiple Tank Composite Sample
3.3 Running Sample is one obtained by
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