Wax content in oil and wax appearance temperature are important factors for simulation of the wax deposition profiles inpipelines. Standard acetone method (UOP method 46-64) or other slightly modified methods of this standard are traditionally used to determine the wax content in the oil. However, in order to determine the wax content at different temperatures, several runs have to be made. This is considered to be time consuming. This paper presents a new method/ approach to determine the wax content of oil at different temepratuers as well as the wax precipitation temperature from a single run. In this approach a correlation between the change in the density, dur to the formation of the solid phase, and the weight fractions of different binary systems was made. For validation purpose of the devleoped method, a pure normal paraffin (>95) is prepared from different mixtures of the following components, n-C6, n-C10, n-C20, n-C22, n-C24, n-C28, n-C32 andn-C36. A comparison between the standard method (UOP Method 46-64) and the developed method shows that the difference between the two methods is within 1-2wt
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