anyone work in a lab with a xrf spectrometer?

[photoman290]

i am experimenting with filtering heating oil to bring it to c1 paraffin grade to use in a space heater. the main difference between the 2 is the sulfur and lead content. as i am going to be breathing in the products of combustion it would be nice to know if filtering has removed them. i have found a paper which seems to show filtering though activated carbon removes most of the lead and sulfur. given paraffin is over twice the price of heating oil it seems worth investigating. there are labs  that do testing but it's 75 quid a time.

[Julian]

Can't help with the xrf  spectrometer ... but I can sell you a canary.

[photoman290]

naa too noisy and they shit everywhere.

[Jamesrl]

naa too noisy and they shit everywhere.

A small elastic band and bung should solve the canary problems.

[dgs]

If I was still at ICI I could have helped you Bob.

[photoman290]

cheers dave  if i was in cambridge i could get a student to do it for a project. but lost touch with everyone i knew there. there are very few papers on the subject. what i found interesting was that since sulfur is being removed from diesel it is being pushed down the column into the lower fractions like heating oil.  clever errr. and cheaper than just removing it, and dumping it in nigeria.