EN ISO 3838:2004

Crude petroleum and liquid or solid petroleum products - Determination of density or relative density - Capillary-stoppered pyknometer and graduated bicapillary pyknometer methods (ISO 3838:2004)

Publication date:   Sep 25, 2006

General information

90.93 Standard confirmed   Mar 20, 2013

CEN

CEN/TC 19 Gaseous and liquid fuels, lubricants and related products of petroleum, synthetic and biological origin.

European Norm

75.040   Crude petroleum | 75.080   Petroleum products in general

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Scope

ISO 3838:2004 specifies methods for the determination of the density or relative density of crude petroleum and of petroleum products handled as liquids.
The capillary-stoppered pyknometer method is also for use with solids and this method may also be used for coal tar products, including road tars, creosote and tar pitches, or for mixtures of these with petroleum products. This method is not suitable for the determination of the density or relative density of highly volatile liquids having Reid vapour pressures greater than 50 kPa according to ISO 3007 or having an initial boiling point below 40 degrees Celsius.
The graduated bicapillary pyknometer method is recommended for the accurate determination of the density or relative density of all except the more viscous products, and is particularly useful when only small amounts of samples are available. The method is restricted to liquids having Reid vapour pressures of 130 kPa or less according to ISO 3007 and having kinematic viscosities less than 50 mm2/s (50 centistokes (cSt)) at the test temperature.
Special precautions are specified for the determination of the density or relative density of highly volatile liquids.

Life cycle

PREVIOUSLY

WITHDRAWN
EN ISO 3838:1995

NOW

PUBLISHED
EN ISO 3838:2004
90.93 Standard confirmed
Mar 20, 2013

CORRIGENDA / AMENDMENTS

PUBLISHED
EN ISO 3838:2004/A1:2023