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Title: 
Screening Brazilian C gasoline quality: Application of the SIMCA chemometric method to gas chromatographic data
Author(s): 
Institution: 
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
ISSN: 
0003-2670
Abstract: 
A total of 2400 samples of commercial Brazilian C gasoline were collected over a 6-month period from different gas stations in the São Paulo state, Brazil, and analysed with respect to 12 physicochemical parameters according to regulation 309 of the Brazilian Government Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP). The percentages (v/v) of hydrocarbons (olefins, aromatics and saturated) were also determined. Hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) was employed to select 150 representative samples that exhibited least similarity on the basis of their physicochemical parameters and hydrocarbon compositions. The chromatographic profiles of the selected samples were measured by gas chromatography with flame ionisation detection and analysed using soft independent modelling of class analogy (SIMCA) method in order to create a classification scheme to identify conform gasolines according to ANP 309 regulation. Following the optimisation of the SIMCA algorithm, it was possible to classify correctly 96% of the commercial gasoline samples present in the training set of 100. In order to check the quality of the model, an external group of 50 gasoline samples (the prediction set) were analysed and the developed SIMCA model classified 94% of these correctly. The developed chemometric method is recommended for screening commercial gasoline quality and detection of potential adulteration. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Issue Date: 
9-Jul-2007
Citation: 
Analytica Chimica Acta. Amsterdam: Elsevier B.V., v. 595, n. 1-2, p. 128-135, 2007.
Time Duration: 
128-135
Publisher: 
Elsevier B.V.
Keywords: 
  • commercial gasoline
  • quality control
  • ANP regulation 309
  • gas chromatography
  • SIMCA model
Source: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aca.2007.02.049
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Access Rights: 
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Type: 
outro
Source:
http://repositorio.unesp.br/handle/11449/38556
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