PETRO Industry News February/March 2010 • Volume 11 Issue 1 ISSN Number: 1472 0590


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Index to Advertisers 48 Flow Level Pressure Measurement and Testing 32-36 38-47


Cooling Equipment for Hazardous Areas


BARTEC BENKE GmbH By Glenn Fannin, 28


lisa@pin-pub.com Gary Durham


gary@envirotechpubs.com Robert Battell Gwyneth Astles


Caroline Belt Heather Vincent Matthew Cook Jennifer Hemsely Sue Petts


Chris Brown Jacky Page


Nikki Kaloczi Linda Hudson Patricia Rogers


Samantha Jackson Rebecca Cummings


Analytical Instrumentation


A Fast Method for Determining PCB/Chlorine Contamination in Transformer Oils by Monochromatic X-Ray Fluorescence (MCXRF)


HORIBA Scientific By David Malone and Rudy Haas


Optimise Ethylene and Propylene Testing with Stable Flow Rt® BOND PLOT Columns


Restek Corporation 10-11 -Alumina


By Jaap de Zeeuw, Bill Bromps, Tom Vezza, Rick Morehead, Jan Pijpelink, and Gary Stidsen


16-17 Safety 26-31 10-24 Thermo Fisher Scientific By Matthew Cassap 6-7 Biofuel Industry News


Reliable Determination of Copper, Phosphorus and Sulfurin Bioethanol Using Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrometry


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Contents Fuel for Thought 2-4


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