Mineral Oil Testing

Mineral oil is a colorless, odorless liquid obtained from refining crude oil to produce gasoline and other petroleum products. Mineral oils; It is used in medicine, veterinary, cosmetic, mechanical, electrical and industrial, food and many different fields.

As Nanolab Laboratories Group, we carry out many tests and analyzes in Mineral Oils.

- Determination of Additive Elements, Wear Metals and Amount of Pollutants: (Aluminium (Al); Copper (Cu); Barium (Ba), Boron (B), Zinc (Zn), Iron (Fe), Phosphorus (P), Silver (Ag), Cadmium (Cd), Tin (Sn), Calcium (Ca), Chromium (Cr); Lead (Pb); Magnesium (Mg); Manganese (Mn); Molybdenum (Mo); Nickel (Ni); Silicon (Si); Sodium (Na); Titanium (Ti); Vanadium (V))
- Determination of Total Acid Number (TAN)
- Determination of Appearance
- Determination of Ash
- Determination of Total Base Number (TBN)
- Determination of Density (15°C)
- Flash Point Determination
- FTIR Spectrum Determination (Soot, Oxidation, Nitration, Sulfation, Water, Glycol, Diesel, Gasoline, ZDDP)
- Particle Count / Oil Contamination Determination
- Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) Determination
- Pour point
- Viscosity Index
- Kinematic Viscosity (at 40°C)
- Kinematic Viscosity (at 100°C)
- Determination of Water (% V/V)
- Water Determination - Karl Fischer (ppm, %)
- Sediment and Soluble Sludge Determination

Reference standards within the scope of Mineral Oil Determination:
- ASTM D5185: Standard Test Method for Multielement Determination of Used and Unused Lubricating Oils and Base Oils by Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry (ICP-AES)
- ASTM D 664: Standard Test Method for Acid Number of Petroleum Products by Potentiometric Titration
- ASTM D 482: Standard Test Method for Ash from Petroleum Products
- ASTM D 974-02: Standard Test Method for Acid and Base Number by Color-Indicator Titration
- ASTM D 4052: Standard Test Method for Density, Relative Density, and API Gravity of Liquids by Digital Density Meter
- ASTM D 93: Standard Test Methods for Flash Point by Pensky-Martens Closed Cup Tester
- ASTM E 2412: Standard Practice for Condition Monitoring of In-Service Lubricants by Trend Analysis Using Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) Spectrometry
- ISO 4406: Hydraulic fluid power — Fluids — Method for coding the level of contamination by solid particles
- ISO 4407: Hydraulic fluid power — Fluid contamination — Determination of particulate contamination by the counting method using an optical microscope
- TS EN 12766-1: Petroleum products and used oils- Determination of PCBs and related products - Part 1: Separation and determination of selected PCB congeners by gas chromatography (GC) using an electron capture detector (ECD)
- TS EN 12766-2: Petroleum products and used oils - Determination of PCBs and related products - Part 2: Calculation of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) content
- ASTM D97: Standard Test Method for Pour Point of Petroleum Products -- eLearning Course
- ISO 3016: Petroleum and related products from natural or synthetic sources - Determination of pour point
- ASTM D 2270: Standard Practice for Calculating Viscosity Index from Kinematic Viscosity at 40 °C and 100 °C
- ISO 3733: Petroleum products and bituminous materials — Determination of water — Distillation method
- ASTM D 6304: Standard Test Method for Determination of Water in Petroleum Products, Lubricating Oils, and Additives by Coulometric Karl Fischer Titration
- ASTM D 1698: Standard Test Method for Sediments and Soluble Sludge in Service-Aged Insulating Oils

You can contact Nanolab Environmental Analysis Laboratory for Mineral Oil Analysis.