Petroleum, Fuels & Lubricants Testing
Flash point, viscosity, distillation, pour and cloud point, penetration and density testing for fuels, oils, greases and bitumen.
20 categories · 244 published records. The catalogue we can supply is broader than the catalogue we publish — send us the item if you cannot find it.
Before you order
Flash point decides how a product is classified, stored and licensed, so the method is not interchangeable: closed cup and open cup give different figures on the same sample, and Abel, Pensky-Martens and Cleveland each have their own range. Confirm which one your specification names before you buy the apparatus — a laboratory that owns the wrong cup cannot report against its own method, and the classification boundaries that follow from the figure are set in law rather than by the standard.
Pensky-Martens Closed Cup Flash Point Apparatus, Semi-Automatic
Semi-automatic closed cup flash point apparatus covering 40 °C to 350 °C, with ionisation-ring flash detection and built-in cooling for quick turnaround between samples.
IndentASTM D93Temperature range: 40 °C to 350 °C
Specification for Pensky-Martens Closed Cup Flash Point Apparatus, Semi-Automatic
Specification for Pensky-Martens Closed Cup Flash Point Apparatus, Semi-Automatic Temperature range 40 °C to 350 °C Temperature accuracy ± 1 °C Temperature sensor Glass Pt 100, Class A, digital indication at 0.1 °C resolution Flash detection Automatic, by ionisation ring, with buzzer and digital display Heating rate control Ten-turn potentiometer for fine adjustment of the heating rate Cooling Inbuilt high-speed quiet fan for rapid sample-to-sample turnaround Operation Single push-button control of stirring and heating; TEST / START and STOP controls Other methods cited JIS K2265-3 Standards
ASTM D93ISO 2719IP 34IS 1448 (Part 21)IS 1448 (Part 66)IS 1209Typical applications
- Biodiesel and biodiesel blends
- Distillate fuels — diesel, kerosene, heating oil and turbine fuel
- Lubricating oils
- Other homogeneous petroleum products
What laboratories usually order alongside this.
Bitumen & Asphalt Testing
Penetration, softening point and ductility apparatus, Marshall stability equipment, binder ageing ovens and viscosity measurement.
Analytical Instruments
Balances, pH and conductivity meters, spectrophotometers, titration apparatus, extraction and digestion systems.
Ovens, Furnaces & Incubators
Hot air ovens, muffle and high-temperature furnaces, water baths, stability chambers and refrigerated equipment.
Why we publish the standard revision, not just the number.
Testing instruments are bought against a method, and a method is written against a standard. When that standard is revised, the old number stays in circulation for years — sometimes decades — because catalogues copy each other and nobody re-checks.
Three examples currently live across this industry: ASTM D1559 for Marshall stability, withdrawn in 1998. ASTM D422 for hydrometer analysis, withdrawn in 2016. IS 13311 for non-destructive concrete testing, absorbed into the IS 516 family in 2018. All three still appear on product listings you can buy from today.
That matters commercially, not just pedantically. If your quality manual cites a withdrawn standard, a NABL assessor will raise it, and the fastest way that error enters a manual is by being copied off a supplier’s specification sheet.
On qualification: for pharmaceutical customers, the documentation is half the purchase. GMP-specification equipment differs in its contact surfaces, its control system, its printed cycle records and its IQ/OQ/PQ protocol set. Specify that requirement at enquiry stage — retrofitting it after installation costs more and delays qualification.
On site preparation: compression testing machines, ductility baths, abrasion machines and large ovens need foundations, three-phase supply, drainage or extraction. We issue the foundation drawing and utility schedule with the quotation so the civil work can run in parallel with the delivery lead time rather than after it.
