1. SCOPE

This standard prescribes the requirements and the methods of test for petroleum hydrocarbon solvents generally used in solvent extraction of oils, rubber and paint industries, in the formulation of insecticides, for dry cleaning and for textile printing purposes.

2. REFERENCES

The following standards contain provisions which through reference in this text, constitute provisions of the standard. All standards are subject to revision, and parties to agreements based on this standard are encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent editions of the standards indicated below.

1260 (Part 1) : 1973 Pictorial markings for handlings and labelling of goods : Part 1 Dangerous goods (frist revision)

1447 (Part 1) : 2016 Petroleum and its products — Methods of Sampling: Part 1 Manual Sampling (first revision)

IS 1448 Methods of test for petroleum and its products:

[P : 12] : 2013/ISO 2049 : 1996 Determination of colour (ASTM scale)

[P : 14] : 1960 Colour by Saybolt chromometer

[P : 15] : 2004 Corrosiveness to copper — Copper strip corrosion

[P : 16] : 2014/ISO 3675 : 1998 Density, relative density or API gravity of crude petroleum and liquid petroleum products by hydrometer method

[P : 18] : 1991 Distillation of petroleum products

[P : 20] : 1998 Determination of flash point by Abel apparatus

[P : 23] : 2004/ISO 3837 : 1993 Determination of hydrocarbon types — Fluorescent indicator adsorption method

[P : 29] : 2004/ISO 6246 : 2017 Gum content of light and middle distillate fuels — Jet evaporation method

[P : 34] : 1979 Determination of sulphur in petroleum products (lamp method)

ISO 8754 : 2003 Petroleum products — Determination of sulfur content — Energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry

ISO 12185 : 1996 Crude petroleum and petroleum products — Determination of density — Oscillating U-tube method

ISO 20846 : 2011 Petroleum products — Determination of sulfur content of automotive fuels — Ultraviolet fluorescence method