Study and Development of Fuel Adulteration Detection System

Abstract

Over the years, the rise in the fuel prices has lead the adulteration market to develop new techniques for blending the inferior adulterants into the highly taxed petroleum products. Despite of various adulteration monitoring techniques existing in place, this illegal practice of profit making by using subsidized fuels as adulterants still persists. The emission from consumption of such adulterated fuels has contributed to the global Air pollution and various health hazards linked to it. This calls for the ease and precision of monitoring techniques. This study reviews the use of emerging fields of technology like microfluidics, metamaterial, microfabrication and fiber optics to develop Adulteration detection systems for Diesel which provides higher sensitivity and portability as compared to the existing lab based methods. Also, experimentation results measuring density of the fuel suggests adulteration above 16.66% is unacceptable.