Reaffirmed 2023

1. SCOPE

This Indian Standard covers specification for various new process/extender oils named as low PAH oils, use by rubber and allied industries. This specification, besides defining normal physico-chemical parameters for process and extender based oils, exclusively covers the PAH content requirements.

2. REFERENCES

The following Standards contain provision which through reference in this text, constitute provisions of this standard. At the time of publication, the editions indicated were valid. All standards are subject to revision, and parties to agreements based on the standard are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent editions of the standards:

1070 : 1992 Reagent grade water — Specification (third revision)

1448 Methods of test for petroleum and its products

[P : 3] : 2007/ISO 2977 : 1997 Petroleum products and hydrocarbon solvents — Determination of aniline point and mixed aniline point (third revision)

[P : 10/Sec 2] : 2013/ISO 3016 : 1994 Cloud point and pour point, Section 2 Determination of pour point (second revision)

[P : 16] : 2014/ISO 3675 : 1998 Crude petroleum and liquid petroleum products — Laboratory determination of density — Hydrometer method (fourth revision)

[P : 25] : 1976 Determination of kinematic and dynamic viscosity (first revision)

[P : 33] : 1991 Sulphur by bomb method

[P : 69] : 2013/ISO 2592 : 2000 Determination flash and fire points — Cleveland open cup method (first revision)

7086 (Part 1) : 1973 Methods of sampling and test for rubber compounding ingredients

EN 16143 : 2013 Determination of content of benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) and selected polycyclic hydrocarbons (PAH) in extender oils — Procedure using double LC cleaning and GC/MS analysis