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Article: Market profile: distillation analyzers.
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- Instrument Business Outlook
- Article date:
- June 15, 2006
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Due to the higher price of gasoline, and the renewed focus on the development of alternative fuels, the demand for petroleum analysis instrumentation, such as distillation analyzers, is experiencing a modest boost. Applications for distillation analyzers are almost exclusively in the petrochemical industry. Distillation analyzers are based on relatively simple technology and are largely sold by vendors specializing in petroleum analysis.
As the name implies, distillation analyzers perform a micro distillation to characterize the boiling characteristics of a given sample by how easily the components vaporize. Distillation analysis is very limited in the analytical ...