Significance and Use

This practice provides field personnel and laboratories with standard procedures for dividing, reducing, and mixing gross samples and intermediate samples, such that the resulting prepared analysis samples are more uniform from laboratory to laboratory. Adherence to these guidelines is expected to provide significant reduction in interlaboratory variability.

1. Scope

1.1 This practice covers the preparation procedures necessary for the reduction and division of calcined petroleum coke samples in order to generate appropriate analytical samples upon which physical and chemical analytical tests will be performed.

1.2 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as standard. No other units of measurement are included in this standard.

1.3 This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety and health practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.

2. Referenced Documents (purchase separately) The documents listed below are referenced within the subject standard but are not provided as part of the standard.

ASTM Standards

D1552 Test Method for Sulfur in Petroleum Products (High-Temperature Method)

D2638 Test Method for Real Density of Calcined Petroleum Coke by Helium Pycnometer

D4292 Test Method for Determination of Vibrated Bulk Density of Calcined Petroleum Coke

D4422 Test Method for Ash in Analysis of Petroleum Coke

D4930 Test Method for Dust Control Material on Calcined Petroleum Coke

D4931 Test Method for Gross Moisture in Green Petroleum Coke

D5004 Test Method for Real Density of Calcined Petroleum Coke by Xylene Displacement

D5056 Test Method for Trace Metals in Petroleum Coke by Atomic Absorption

D5187 Test Method for Determination of Crystallite Size (Lc of Calcined Petroleum Coke by X-Ray Diffraction

D5600 Test Method for Trace Metals in Petroleum Coke by Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry (ICP-AES)

D5709 Test Method for Sieve Analysis of Petroleum Coke

D6376 Test Method for Determination of Trace Metals in Petroleum Coke by Wavelength Dispersive X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy

Keywords

calcined petroleum coke; sample division; sample preparation; sample reduction; Calcined petroleum coke; Sample preparation--petroleum products; Sampling petroleum products;

ICS Code

ICS Number Code 75.160.10 (Solid fuels)

DOI: 10.1520/D6969-03R08

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ASTM D6969