Determination of ethanol content in gasoline: theory and experiment

Author

Santos, Edval J P

Author_Institution

Lab. for Devices & Nanostructures, Univ. Fed. de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

20-23 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

349

Abstract

Adulterated gasoline may cause problems to the car engine, may present health hazards, and causes losses of tax revenues by the government. Recently, with the deregulation of the Brazilian oil market, there has been rising concerns regarding the quality of Brazilian gasoline. According to ANP (Brazilian regulatory authority), the gasoline is being adulterated by adding a higher concentration of ethanol, or using hydrated ethanol, or adding foreign solvents. This work presents a portable electronic method for the determination of ethanol content in Brazilian gasoline.

Keywords

chemical sensors; electric sensing devices; permittivity measurement; petroleum; ANP Brazilian regulatory authority; Brazilian oil market deregulation; adulterated Brazilian gasoline; car engine; ethanol addition; foreign solvents; gasoline ethanol content; health hazards; hydrated ethanol; portable electronic method; tax revenues; Consumer electronics; Dielectric constant; Engines; Ethanol; Hazards; Petroleum; Power transmission lines; Radio frequency; Solvents; Sugar industry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference, 2003. IMOC 2003. Proceedings of the 2003 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7824-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMOC.2003.1244884

Filename

1244884