Journal
JOURNAL OF SEPARATION SCIENCE
Volume 35, Issue 5-6, Pages 750-757Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/jssc.201100505
Keywords
BTA; Corrosive sulfur; DBDS; DBPC; Liquid-liquid extraction
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- King Fahd University of Petroleum Minerals
- Industrial Support Services Laboratories
- Gulf Chemical and Industrial Oils
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2,6-Di-tert-butyl-p-cresol (DBPC), dibenzyl disulfide (DBDS), and 1,2,3-benzotriazole (BTA) are additives that may be found concomitantly in the oil matrix of power transformer. DBPC and DBDS act as antioxidants while, BTA is a corrosion inhibitor that protects copper conductors inside the transformer unit from corrosion. A powerful analytical method is, therefore, required to determine these additives at trace levels in the transformer oil. This work describes a unique single liquidliquid extraction pretreatment step prior to the determination of the components by gas chromatography (GC) and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) techniques. The optimum volume ratio used in the pretreatment step was determined as 5:2:5 for mineral oil/n-hexane/acetonitrile, respectively. Relatively, the method is simple and quick with a minimal use of solvents. Analytical results indicate that the method is relatively sensitive, accurate, and precise for each of the three components in fresh and used mineral oil. The calibration curves for the three components demonstrate a significant increase in sensitivities. Detection limits found were, 100 mg?L-1 (0.01% w/v), 0.80 mg?L-1, and 2.04 mg?L-1 for DBPC, DBDS, and BTA, respectively. The Student's t values determined at 95% confidence level indicate that there is no significant difference between the experimental means obtained by this method and the standard method for each component.
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