Annotation Essentially, all of the important applications and test methods involved in the fuels and lubricants industry are discussed, either directly or indirectly, and are referenced in this book. Thirty-eight chapters provide a comprehensive, in-depth, well-referenced handbook that provides a detailed overview of All of the important ASTM and non-ASTM fuels and lubricants test procedures. Readers will get a thorough overview of the application-related properties being tested and an extensive discussion of the principles behind the tests and their relationship to the properties themselves.

Petroleum oil refining -- Used oil and re-refining -- Asphaltenes review : Characterization and modelling -- Petroleum waxes -- Coal to liquid conversion processes : A review -- Liquified petroleum gas -- Gasoline -- Aviation fuels -- Automotive diesel and non-aviation gas turbine fuels -- Petroleum-derived hydrocarbon base oils chapter 11 hydrocarbons for chemical and special uses chapter 12 additives and additive chemistry -- Synthetic lubricants : Nonaqueous -- Synthetic lubricants : Aqueous -- Environmentally acceptable ester-based hydraulic fluids -- Turbine lubricating oils and hydraulic fluids -- Hydraulic fluids -- compressor lubricants chapter 19 Gear lubricants -- Automotive engine lubricants -- Metalworking and machining fluids -- Lubricating greases -- Heat transfer fluids -- Non-lubricating process fluids : Steel quenching technology -- Ionic liquid lubricants -- Petroleum measurement -- Analysis of liquid fuels and lubricants -- Elemental analysis -- Chromatography methods in the petroleum fuels and lubricants industry -- Infrared spectroscopic analysis of petroleum, petroleum products, and lubricants -- NMR characterization of petroleum -- Mass spectrometry in the petroleum industry -- Volatility -- Particle counting : Fuels and lubricants -- Biodeterioration -- Temperature measurement -- Gasoline and diesel combustion -- Engineering sciences of aerospace fuels -- Properties of fuels, petroleum pitch, petroleum coke and carbon materials -- Oxidation of lubricants and fuels -- Corrosion.