Separation and Detection of Hydrocarbons and Gasoline in Automotive Engine Oil Using a Teflon® AF2400-coated Gold-deposited Surface Plasmon Resonance-based Glass Rod Sensor

A gold (Au)-deposited surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-based glass rod sensor that is coated with an α-mercaptoethyl-ω-methoxy polyoxyethylene (PEG thiol) layer (approximately 13 nm thick) and a Teflon AF2400 overlayer (12 μm thick) was used to detect the hydrocarbon and gasoline contents of automoti...

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Published in:Analytical Sciences 2018/09/10, Vol.34(9), pp.1085-1091
Main Authors: MITSUSHIO, Masaru, UCHIYAMA, Ei, KAJIYA, Ryoji, YOSHIDOME, Toshifumi, NAKATAKE, Sadafumi, HIGO, Morihide
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Au-deposited SPR-based glass rod sensor
Automotive engines
Automotive fuels
Automotive parts
Coating
Coatings
Dilution
engine oil
fuel dilution
Gasoline
Glass
Gold
hydrocarbon
Hydrocarbons
Light effects
Light sources
Oil
Optical waveguides
Organic light emitting diodes
Polyethylene glycol
Polyoxyethylene
Polytetrafluoroethylene
Resonance
Sensors
Surface plasmon resonance
Teflon AF2400
Trucking industry
Wavelengths
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Summary:A gold (Au)-deposited surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-based glass rod sensor that is coated with an α-mercaptoethyl-ω-methoxy polyoxyethylene (PEG thiol) layer (approximately 13 nm thick) and a Teflon AF2400 overlayer (12 μm thick) was used to detect the hydrocarbon and gasoline contents of automotive engine oil. Hydrocarbons and gasoline present in the engine oil penetrate through the porous Teflon layer and accumulate in the PEG thiol layer, and are then detected using the SPR sensor. The refractivities of the selective layers that contain a hydrocarbon on the Au-deposited glass rod sensor were estimated from the sensor responses when using light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with various operating wavelengths as light sources. Gasoline concentrations up to 10%, w/w in commercial engine oil can be measured directly using this sensor when it is coated with the selective layers. The responses of an SPR-based optical waveguide sensing system using Au films coated with identical selective layers were also measured. The results demonstrate the value of the Au-deposited SPR glass rod sensor coated with the selective layers for the detection of the gasoline content and fuel dilution of automotive engine oil.
ISSN:0910-6340
1348-2246
DOI:10.2116/analsci.18P154