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Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018

Filed:

Apr. 12, 2017
Applicant:

Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran, SA;

Inventors:

Ezzat Hegazi, Ontario, CA;

Vincent Cunningham, Ferbane, IE;

Christof Brunner, Zurich, CH;

Christoph Stamm, Stein am Rhein, CH;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/64 (2006.01); G01N 33/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N 21/645 (2013.01); G01N 33/28 (2013.01); G01N 2021/6463 (2013.01); G01N 2201/0621 (2013.01); G01N 2201/0696 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems for determining contamination in a petroleum-based sample, including irradiating the petroleum-based sample with a light beam from a light source such that a fluorescence signal is generated, guiding, by a mirror, the fluorescence signal to a gear-less rotating diffraction grating, the gear-less rotating diffraction grating spatially separating a fluorescence wavelength from the florescence signal, detecting, by an optical detector, fluorescence wavelength, transforming the fluorescence wavelength into a spectral contour diagram, the spectral contour diagram comprising a fluorescence wavelength variation over time, and determining, the contamination in the petroleum-based sample using the spectral contour diagram.


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