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Pakistan Petroleum Limited

STANDARD PROCEDURE FOR

VOLATILITY OF LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS
OPERATING

Document No. :PPL-HGPP-LAB/SOP/004

Original Issue Date : 19-04-216
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STANDARD

Prepared by Reviewed by Approved by

Waqas Majeed Syed Aslam Shah M.Ali Khan

Lab Chemist Plant Manager PEIC, HGPP

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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DISTRIBUTION LIST 3

TERMS AND DEFINATIONS 4

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 5

1 PURPOSE 6

2 SCOPE 6

3 RESPONSIBILITIES AND AUTHORITIES 6

4 PROCEDURE 6

5 RELATED DOCUMENTS AND RECORDS 6

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DISTRIBUTION LIST

Plant Manager
Laboratory

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TERMS AND DEFINITIONS

TERM DEFINITION

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

LP Low Pressure
LPG Liquefied Petroleum Gas
ASTM American Society for Testing & Materials

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1. PURPOSE:
Volatility, expressed in terms of the 95% evaporated temperature of the product, is
a measure of the amount of least volatile fuel components present in the product.
Coupled with a vapor pressure limit, it serves to assure essentially single
components product in the cases of commercial propane & commercial; butane
fuel types. When volatility is coupled with a vapor pressure limit which has been
related to gravity, as in the case of the commercial PB-mixture type of fuels, the
combination serves to assure essentially two component mixtures for such fuels.
When coupled with proper vapor mixture limit, this measurement serves to assure
that special duty propane products will be composed chiefly of propane and
propylene and that propane will be the major constituent.

2. SCOPE:
This test method is a measure of the relative purity of the various types of LP
gases and helps to assure suitable volatility performance. The test results, when
properly related to vapor pressure and density of the product, can be used to
indicate the presence of butane and heavier components in propane type LP
Gases, and pentane and heavier components in propane butane and butane type
fuels. The presence of hydrocarbon compounds less volatile than those of which
the LPG is primarily composed is indicated by an increase in the 95 % evaporated
temperature.
Chromatography analysis should be used when the concentration and type of
higher boiling compounds must be identified.

3. RESPONSIBILITIES AND AUTHORITIES:

Plant Manager is overall responsible to maintain this documented procedure for

safe sampling.
The Lab Chemist is responsible to ensure compliance of this procedure.

4. PROCEDURE:
Refer ASTM Method D 1837-92

5. RELATED DOCUMENTS AND RECORDS

ASTM D-1837-92
Laboratory Analysis Report PPL-HGPP-LAB/CR/FM/001

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