Water by Distillation Vs Karl Fischer Method

摘要

In 1859 Col. Edwin Drake drilled the first oil well and by the middle of the 1860's, crude oil was flowing out of the wells in western Pennsylvania. Thus, the humble beginning of the modern petroleum industry. It is assumed that within days of his first barrel of oil, people began to argue over the physical and chemical measurements of the oil; the arguments still persist. The three most important characteristics of crude oil, from the buying and selling viewpoint, are sulfur content, density or gravity, and sediment and water. It is the matter of water measurement for which this paper is written.